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Story: Hackers use Google to access photocopiers

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OK lets try and put this one to bed and by the way I am only speaking on behalf of Canon Photocopier Machines my company Digipro sells (did I mention that already).

A fully featured canon digital copier has the facility to copy print scan fax and email a document. The user chooses what he wants to do with a document. If they choose to copy, the canon copier prints the image. That's is why the article is incorrect with Canon as there can never be a vulnerability whilst photocopying because the own users network doesn't even have access whilst photocopying.

If the user chooses to scan it will scan and dependent on which model canon you have it will either send directly over your network "push scanning" or you can retrieve the document from the copier from your pc "pull scanning".

If user chooses to email or fax the document will be sent accordingly.

On any files emailed or scanned a user should take normal security precautions on there network. I use Zone alarm.

In response to post to Fiery website. Fiery is a print server renowned world wide and capable of handling large graphic files. Again its not used at all when photocopying.
In the present canon market fiery is only used for colour printing and very high volume black and white printing, they have also introduced a scan facility.

Regards

Greg
http://www.digipro.co.uk

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