Methods and apparatuses for archiving data processed by digital sender and other like devices are provided. By way of example, a removable data storage media device can be added to a digital sender device. Then the digital sender device will be able to optically scan an object to form corresponding scanned object data, provide recipient address data, generate an outgoing message data using the recipient address data, output the message data, and also store the message data using the removable data storage device.