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Welcome to Midwest Technology
Connection
Greetings!
Thank you for taking a few
minutes out of your busy
schedule to look at our Solution
Newsletter.
In this issue we'll introduce
you to our line of
services which make us the
"One-Stop-Shop"
of Kansas City.
Starting out in 1918 - selling
and servicing typewriters as
Midwest Typewriter Company - we
have come a long way, and are
very proud of our 90
years in business.
Today we are still striving for
quality sales and service and do
our best in providing
solutions to connect people.
Our experienced specialists are
here for you, to find what best
fits your organization's and
business needs.
From Networking and Storage,
Printing & Imaging to Telephony
Solutions, we offer consulting,
design, sales, implementation as
well as service and training.
If you're not aware of our full
line of offerings, and want to
learn more, please continue
reading in this newsletter, give
us a call today at
816.471.3553
or contact us at
info@mtcweb.com.
"Hi! I am Roy
and I work for Midwest
Technology Connection.
I am part of a
great team that is
committed to having fun and
being enthusiastic about our
work. We understand that
this is crucial to our daily
operations, in order to
satisfy you, our customers,
the first and every time."
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Do you need
Managed Services?
1. Do you have between 20 and
200 users?
2. Have you ever been surprised
by a system failure and
experienced downtime and loss of
productivity?
3. Do you have full backups and
have you tested the data in a
full restore?
4. Is your IT staff over-worked
and under-appreciated?
5. Would you like to be able
to focus on projects and
strategic initiatives?
If you answered yes to four of
those questions, your
organization should consider
consulting with us about our
Managed Services offerings.
With IT management often
bordering on chaos, companies
like yours spend 70% of their IT
budgets on system maintenance
and only 30% on new technology.
Imagine if you could shift
funding from administrative
tasks to strategic investments.
A Managed Service contract with
Midwest Technology Connection
provides you with peace of mind,
best usage of your technoogy
equipment due to regular
maintenance and saves you a
substantial amount of money.
I.E.: For under $50,000.00 per
year an organization with around
70 users has a team of certified
professionals proactively
managing their print
environment AND network,
monitoring alerts, applying
patches and updates, and
partnering on the best ways to
use technology to address
business needs.
One strength of MTC's Managed
Services is the ability to
integrate your printing and
imaging environment with your
network. From staff augmentation
to strategy sessions, tech
refresh program to guaranteed
proactive time on site every
month, MTC's Managed Services
offer you a solution tailored to
your unique needs.
Find out how you can streamline
your business operations and add
to your bottom line by
calling our experts today at
816.471.3553!
SEE OUR CURRENT
PROMOTION BELOW!
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Telephony
Would you like to have custom
call routing and special direct
"hotline" numbers for key
customers and vendors?
How about seamless connection
with branch offices, cell
phones, and remote or home-based
staff?
In today's business, IP
Telephony and VoIP
(Voice-over-IP) with Unified
Messaging and Communications are
for real and they are changing
the way we all do business.
MTC and Avaya, the world leader
in IP Telephony, can help you
rethink your business by
providing avenues to make it
more productive and more
profitable in ways that were
never before possible.
Let us know what your wish list
is for your phone system, then
let us take away the mystery and
show you how it can work for
YOUR business and YOUR budget.
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Toner Pirates - BEWARE!!
"Toner pirates" typically
telephone small businesses and
other offices and use deception
to induce victims into switching
their copy machine toner supply
orders to the scam artists -- at
exorbitant prices. Toner is the
dry powder ink used in most copy
machines.
In the event your supplies are
not covered in your maintenance
contract or you do not have a
contract with MTC yet, there are
some very simple ways to protect
you from becoming a victim of
these fraudulent telemarketers.
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Updating Your
Network
The single most important thing
you can do as a computer user is
visit Microsoft Update a couple
of times a month. New security
patches are released frequently,
so it is not only the smart
thing to do, it's the
responsible thing to do. As a
member of the Internet
community, it is your
responsibility to make sure your
PC is immune to exploits and
vulnerabilities that can turn
your computer into a zombie
machine that propagates SPAM and
viruses. Setup automated updates
so your system will download
critical files and install them
when necessary.
You can visit the Microsoft
Update site or call MTC to take
care of the updates for you.
MTC can also minimize
disruptions to the work
environment by remotely
resolving issues using a secure
VPN system. Our certified
engineers & technicians will
help you with your LAN/WAN
design & implementation of
Windows, Outlook, Exchange,
Microsoft Server 2008, Remote
Users and VPN Custom
Programming.
Did you know that MTC was one of
the first ones to be involved in
the Microsoft RDP program? Yes,
we've trained and installed
Windows Server 2008 at our
customer's site before the
launch date in February 2008!
Read about it in Microsoft's
case study:
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Service Department
How are your office machines
doing? Have they been cleaned
or serviced lately? Do you use
our MTC brand remanufactured
cartridges on any of your office
machines? If so, you can get
1 FREE cleaning
a year on those machines. Our
knowledgeable technicians are
certified to work on many
different types of machines such
as HP, Lexmark and Xerox. They
can fix, clean and service your
printers, copiers, fax and
multi-function machines here or
at your office.
Our maintenance contracts will
give you peace of mind with
budgeting control and priority
service.
We are an authorized service
provider to do warranty work on
HP, Lexmark, Okidata and Xerox
machines. Extended warranty
services are also available
through MTC.
Give us a call. Maybe we can
catch a problem before it
becomes one. 816.471.3553
or contact us at
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Economic Stimulus Act Of 2008
The Economic Stimulus Act of
2008 contains two provisions
that provide tax benefits for
businesses.
The first provision increases
the limit up to which a business
can expense property purchased
and placed in service during its
2008 tax year.
The second provision provides an
additional 50 percent special
depreciation allowance for
property acquired and placed in
service during calendar year
2008.
Unlike the economic stimulus
payments that millions of
individuals have already
received, the tax benefits for
businesses are not automatic;
businesses must act to take
advantage of the new provisions
by purchasing qualifying
property.
The Joint Committee on Taxation
estimates that businesses stand
to lower their 2008 tax bills by
roughly $45 billion as a result
of the two business provisions
in the Economic Stimulus Act of
2008; these provisions
accelerate into 2008 the tax
benefits that otherwise would
not have been available until
future years.
With MTC and
Microsoft Financing you can
invest in your IT business,
without great financial strain,
and get done what needs to get
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True Cost of Printing
The price tag on any given
printer really tells only half
the story. Many times the
cheapest printer for sale isn't
necessarily the cheapest printer
to own. And what's the most
affordable printer for you in
particular?
Depending on how many pages you
print and how much it costs to
print each page, a high-priced
printer with expensive
cartridges could be a lot
cheaper to own in the long run
than a less-expensive printer
with low-cost cartridges.
Coming up with that long-run
cost for comparison is exactly
what our specialists at MTC can
do for you! Make sure to check
with us to see how we can save
you money in the long run!
For more information call MTC's
printing and imaging
experts today at
816.471.3553!
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MTC Solution Spotlights
Please join us for our next Solution
Spotlight:
October 23:
HP ProCurve Networking
Global digital information is exploding
internationally. Trusting MTC and HP
partnering to help you bridge the gap
between data explosion and storage
infrastructure will help you be strong,
change ready and cost effective for your
company's past, present and future.
Click here to
Register or for more information
CALL US TODAY at
816.283.4555
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Inspirational...
The way to gain a good reputation, is to
endeavor to be what you desire
to appear.
Socrates
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Another MTC
Success Story:
MTC wins against six competing
proposals to replace the IP Telephony
System for a local city government in
2008!
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GO GREEN!
Do you want to dispose of your empty
toner cartridges in an environmental
friendly way?
Ask your MTC
sales representative about our Cartridge
Recycling Program today!
Go
"Green" by letting us recycle your
used cartridges in our Recycling
Program. We are trying to help the
environment by taking your recycled
cartridges to a local place that
uses environmentally safe
procedures. When you place your
order with us let us know how many
cartridges you have, we'll help you
make a difference!
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MTC & Microsoft:
Adding the
IW
Competency
MTC has formally achieved its Microsoft
Information Worker (IW) competency
earlier this year. We already earned
the Networking Infrastructure Solutions
Competency and have been a Small
Business Specialist for several years.
The Microsoft competency certification
defines an area of specialization and
illustrates MTC's proven ability for
implementing the specific Microsoft
solution.
This provides our customers with the
assurance of MTC's ability to provide
quality services.
To be recognized as Microsoft certified
in a specific competency, partners must
meet a series of requirements including
a number of successful implementations
of the IW solution as well as a
specified number of certified employees.
Brett Littrell, President at MTC:
"The investment made in terms of
training and certification in this key
Microsoft solution set shows yet again
our commitment to provide our customers
with the best business technology
solutions, and we meet their product and
servicing needs completely."
The Microsoft IW solution set centers on
addressing key customer challenges by
helping you develop solutions and deploy
services based on the 2007 Microsoft
Office system and Microsoft Exchange
Server 2007.
Call us today at
816.471.3553!
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Printer Service:
If you can't print from any
application, check to see if the
printer is paused. Click Start and
Control Panel, and then double-click
Printers & Faxes. Right-click your
printer and see if Pause Printing is
selected. If it is, click Pause
Printing again to resume printing.
If the printer is not paused, try to
print a test page to verify that
communication from the PC to the
printer is good: Right-click the
printer, select Properties, and then
choose the Print Test Page button on
the General tab. Some printers may
have a Test Page button located
right on the printer, which makes it
easier to print a test page
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PC:
Vista tip:
Needing the 'Run' command in Vista?
= click logo, Press the left
'Windows' logo key and the letter
'R'
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Networking:
If regular pop-ups occur about
Antivirus, you should notify your
network administrator immediately.
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