Business Solutions to save time, money, and waste.

Midwest has been the region's leader in advanced office technology for over 35 years.  What you might not know is that we offer our partners more than just machines.  We have workflow solutions that allow you to print less, print more efficiently, and improve productivity.

In Gartner’s 2008 survey of nearly 400 respondent organizations, approximately 69 percent reported that they had more than six content repositories. When you consider the industry statistics below, it becomes clear that businesses need to invest in Document Management.

Companies spend on average:

    * $20 in labor to file a document *
    * $120 in labor to find a misfiled document *
    * $220 in labor to reproduce a lost document *
    * 7.5 percent of all documents get lost; 3 percent of the remainder get misfiled *
    * Professionals spend 5 – 15 percent of their time reading information, but up to 50 percent looking for it *
    * $24 average cost to process a single invoice manually **
    * 40% of 1,200 organizations surveyed indicated disaster recovery planning not a priority +
    * 2 out of 5 companies who experience a disaster are out of business in 5 years ++

* PricewaterhouseCoopers      + Captaris      ** IOMA      ++ Gartner

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At Midwest, we’ve moved far beyond the box. Our people bring innovative, real-world solutions to help you cut costs, streamline operations, control your output environment, secure your documents, and reduce your environmental footprint. If there’s one thing every business and our planet can use right now, it’s managing to do more with less.

As part of your Encompass Document Analysis, our trained professionals will provide an on-site walk-through of your offices and a complete inventory of your fleet of document equipment. We help you consolidate your print volume to more efficient multifunction devices and to your existing efficient network laser printers. This optimization can reduce costs, streamline operations, maximize control, secure your documents, and conserve resources.

We calculate precisely how much waste occurs within your company and/or individual departments. Our experts determine the cost savings you can expect, including hard savings through the reduction of hardware costs as well as soft savings through improved efficiency.

Businesses that have already taken advantage of our Managed Print Services have realized an average savings of between 30% and 40%, with the most substantial savings as high as 60%. Areas of cost savings include fleet optimization, acquisition method and vendor/asset management.

We will analyze your current eco footprint and find ways to measurably improve it in the future with our Encompass Green Report. This report provides clear, accurate measurements of your office printing environmental footprint in terms of paper consumption, electrical consumption and CO2 emissions, natural resource and solid waste impact as well as environmental and economic costs.

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