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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
City
Goes "Paperless"
Greensburg,
Kansas 3/28/2009 — This week the City of Greensburg received
a very generous gift from a Weston, Florida-based
company, Imaging101. All of Greensburg's City AND
County infrastructure was destroyed by a Tornado. Company President Jacob Russo arrived
in town on Monday and presented City Hall with a paperless
document storage system, along with a scanner donated by
the Kodak corporation. He stayed several days to get the
system set up and help staff learn how to use this new
technology.
The idea for making this generous donation came from Imaging101’s
Cari Ramos, head of their technology department. She read
about Greensburg building back as a model green community
after the May 2007 tornado devastated the community, and
as Russo explains it, “Something clicked. The town had lost
all of its infrastructure and we asked, ‘How can we help?’”
After spending time in Greensburg, Russo is amazed with how
the town has come together. “It’s all fantastic – very daring.”
Imaging101 has been a green advocate for a long time, and
has helped companies throughout the U.S. and Canada reduce
their paper use with great results. Their stated goal is
to “help companies improve business while helping the earth
by converting paper to digital information.” The Kodak corporation
manufactures what Ramos describes as “the best scanner on
the market”.
Ramos has a passion for the Green Initiative and is
enthusiastically
supportive of what the community is trying to accomplish.
She describes herself as a big “tree person” and is quick
to point out how many trees are saved by using this type
of system. One ream of paper (500 sheets) uses up the equivalent
of 6% of a tree. You can see how this would quickly add up.
Studies show that the average piece of paper in an office
is photocopied 19 times. Using this new “green” technology,
the City of Greensburg will be able to much more efficiently
retrieve and email documents. Says City Treasurer Pam Reves,
“I’m just so excited. This technology will be great for us,
and the scanner is wonderful. We never could have afforded
it otherwise.” She projects that the City’s paper consumption
will be cut in half, and the time that staff has to spend
looking for documents will be radically decreased. The staff
scanned a 200-page book in about 10 minutes, with the scanner
doing the work of automatically copying pages on both sides.
Very impressive.
Source:
City of Greensburg, Kansas
Click
here to read the Press Release on the Greensburg Website
CONTACTS:
Mike Russo,
Imaging101, Inc.
Voice
954-659-3101, Fax
954-659-1301
eMail info@imaging101.com,
Web http://www.imaging101.com
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