Copymasters Hawaii,

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Copymasters promote education in office equipment technology

Inc. has been in business since 1994, and specialis es in Duplo Digital Duplicators that are the current gener ation of duplicator equipment. The company is also the dealer and service centre for various other office equip ment and supplies including paper and toner. The company’s territory covers the entire Pacific, stretching from the State of Hawaii, the entire South Pacific and Micronesia including Guam and the Northern Marianas.

“We first ventured into Micronesia because of many requests for ‘spirit or mimeo’ type duplicators and supplies that use very flammable fluids that were highly combustible and were being used in vari ous school systems where there were a lot

of children,” a company statement said Schools in Hawaii were already using the digital duplicators or safe type of duplica tors because of strict health regulations and the obsolete ‘spirit’ type equipment was being ‘dumped’ or sold to various Pacific- Rim countries. According to various com panies "they wouldn’t know the differ ence”. Copymasters Hawaii says "this prompted us to help educate people from various South Pacific and Micronesia countries in the knowledge and use in cur rent office equipment technology through participation in the Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) confer ences held each year at various locations in the Pacific”.

Today, Copymasters Hawaii serves clients like Pohnpei State, FSM; Education department, Kosrae State, FSM;

Department of Education, The Republic of Marshall Islands; Ministry of Education and many othpr education systems throughout the Pacific. “One of its proud est accomplishments was assisting Mr Damian Sold, Director of Education for Pohnpei State, FSM, who was instrumen tal in placing the same type of digital duplicators and copiers in each of some 30 public schools, setting up an internal print shop, and have two highly skilled service technicians who can repair and service their own equipment without incurring additional cost, thus a saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the coming years in repair cost alone,” the statement said.

Copymasters works directly with vari ous agencies of governments, including education, school to work programmes, head start and special education depart ments, by providing “free” service and repair training programmes that are spon sored by the company. “We strongly believe that by providing exceptional ser vice, our business will continue to grow and at the same time offer valuable career training,” the company says. ■