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Innovations from Hewlett-Packard have had a tremendous impact on color printing. Now, the company’s long history of innovation is taking another significant turn with the introduction of HP Edgeline Technology.

The Advantages of HP Edgeline Technology

HP Edgeline Technology is an ink-based printing engine designed with printheads that span the width of a page. Basically, this means that instead of the printheads having to move across the paper, the paper itself moves. This results in several important benefits for color printing users.

Increased speed.

Because ink is dispersed across the entire width of the page as the paper passes beneath the printheads, printer speeds are among the fastest in their class.

Print-shop-quality output.

The use of large, stationary printheads enables more accurate ink-drop placement, which in turn, enables extremely crisp color output. The printheads have 10,560 nozzles each for precise ink delivery. continue reading...

HP today added powerful and affordable new workstations and displays to its professional lineup, including the company’s first 14-inch mobile workstation.

Building on HP’s award-winning Z series of workstations, the HP Z200 Workstation offers a new entry point to workstation-class performance at starting prices that rival those of traditional desktop computing systems, making it a great choice for government, education and small businesses. The HP Z200 is ideal for engineers and designers using Autodesk AutoCAD, photographers using Adobe Photoshop® and power office users.

HP also introduced the HP ZR22w and HP ZR24w Performance Displays, providing exceptional visual quality with a new brushed aluminum industrial design, making them a great pairing with HP Z Workstations both in looks and performance.

According to IDC, HP is currently the industry leader with 42.8 percent of the global mobile workstation market.⁽¹⁾ Adding to its award-winning EliteBook notebook lineup, HP introduced the 15-inch diagonal display HP EliteBook 8540w and the 14-inch diagonal display HP EliteBook 8440w. The HP EliteBook 8540w and 8440w feature workstation-caliber graphics that are tested, optimized and certified to run the most demanding professional applications for mobile power users.

“As professional applications move into 3-D, more and more people are upgrading to the power of multicore workstations to fuel their creativity,” said Jeff Wood, director, Worldwide Marketing, Workstations, HP. “Customers around the world choose HP workstations for the best in performance and for reliability that adds up to a surprisingly short return on investment.”

Tapping the power of Intel’s newest technologies, the HP Z200 offers dual-core processor options based on the next-generation Intel® processors as well as quad-core processor options based on the enterprise-class Intel Xeon® 3400 series.⁽²⁾ In addition, the HP Z200 is designed for ease of use and serviceability – with a convertible minitower, tool-less chassis, and convenient FireWire® and USB ports located on the front of the system. continue reading...

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has instituted a security checklist program. Checklists can be developed not only by IT vendors, but also by consortia,  cademia, industry, federal agencies and other governmental organizations, as well as other entities in the public and private sectors. A security configuration checklist (sometimes referred to as a lockdown guide, hardening guide or benchmark configuration) is essentially a document that contains instructions or procedures for configuring an IT product to a baseline level of security. Many technology devices have approved security checklists. However, HP is the first printer/MFP manufacturer to have a security checklist approved and published by NIST. Unlike other certifications, which often certify only certain features, the checklist program locks down or secures the entire MFP solution.

HP considers security checklists as a means to significantly improve the security capabilities' ease of configuration for imaging and printing products. HP submitted a security checklist for the HP LaserJet 4345 and 4370 printers in September 2006. At the time of submission, HP was the only hardcopy manufacturer to submit a checklist for review. HP plans to develop additional checklists for hardcopy devices in the future.
A checklist might include any of the following:
• Configuration files that automatically set various security settings (e.g., executables, security templates that modify settings, scripts)
• Documentation (e.g., text file) that guides the checklist user to manually configure software
• Documents that explain the recommended methods to securely install and configure a device
• Policy documents that set forth guidelines for such things as auditing, authentication security (e.g., passwords), and perimeter security continue reading...

Far too often office workflow processes are inefficient, manual, and expensive. The Association for Information and Image Management estimates upwards of 90% of all business information is still held on paper. And according to IDC, business professionals spend 60% of their time handling paper-based documents, plus more than 40% of internal office communication is still handled via hardcopy. IDC also reports producing, distributing, and storing documents accounts for up to 40% of an organization’s labor costs and 15% of its revenue. With U.S.-based businesses spending up to $100 billion per year processing paper, according to IDC estimates, the paperless office so sought after in the 1990s remains an elusive myth for the vast majority of organizations.

While you may never be able to eliminate paper entirely from the equation, innovative HP digital-sending and document-capture technology lets you incorporate hardcopy documents into an electronic infrastructure that streamlines decentralized, paper-intense business processes and workflows to help you:

• Reduce operational costs – Automating manual paperwork processes can significantly reduce costs since users are able to share electronic copies of documents quickly without relying on interoffice mail, couriers, or regular mail. The scan-to-email functionality inherent in every HP MFP, scanner, and digital sender also eliminates the need for standalone fax machines, for which the dedicated phone lines alone typically cost $30-50 each per month. In addition, HP digital-sending and document-capture solutions free up increasingly valuable real estate currently dedicated to storing and archiving paper documents. continue reading...

Document capture technology is not new. In the 1990s, many organizations that were generating or taking in large volumes of inbound documents and costly complex processes (think of insurance claims processing and credit card application processing) invested in sophisticated centralized scanning and document handling operations to digitize and automate paper-based processes. While the benefits of document capture are many (faster processing, improved quality and accuracy, reduced paper storage and tighter organizational control over critical content), the costs associated with this centralized approach made it inappropriate for all but those with the greatest paper pain point. Today, however, new advances in this proven technology enable IT organizations to take a less costly and more efficient decentralized or “distributed” approach to document capture.

Just as networked computing and the Internet forever changed how information is shared, innovations in bandwidth as well as advances in imaging hardware and software are similarly changing how, where, when and by whom information is captured. Today it is not uncommon for those who process an organization’s most time-sensitive and business-critical documents to be located in satellite offices around the globe. In many cases, the expertise provided by these remote workers is applied while the information is ingested or captured. Distributed document capture hardware and software enables such workers to capture and process information directly, ensuring that valuable business information is handled quickly, cost-effectively, accurately and securely. continue reading...

“Our focus has always been on providing the very best treatment for our patients,” commented Carl Labbadia, Grove Hill’s Director of Information Systems (IS). “At times this has meant that our energies have not always been directed at remaining on the leading edge of information technology. For the last 12 years, with attention being paid to other areas of optimizing patient care, we’ve ran the same legacy billing and appointment management system.”

He continued, “Each of our eight locations were connected using a proprietary local area transport protocol and we had over 100 dot-matrix printers, distributed across all of the offices to print patients’ Encounter forms. These forms cover standard information, such as name, date of birth, physician’s name, and lists of common procedures with associated diagnoses for medical staff to check-off and were printed on two-part, pre-printed stationary.“

Encounter forms were created for every patient visit – totaling over 5,000 forms each day. “There were multiple disadvantages with the old infrastructure,” recalled Labbadia. “The technology had become costly to manage and maintain. Fifteen percent of my technicians’ time was spent supporting and repairing the old dot-matrix printers. continue reading...

The reality is that the paperless office has not yet arrived, and it probably won’t anytime soon. But that doesn’t mean you can’t improve the way you share, edit, print, store and retrieve documents. This planner is designed to help you understand how to use digital send technology to improve productivity, enhance competitiveness and reduce costs by streamlining the way you digitize and share documents.

Think about it: a quick look at some of the problems caused by working with paper documents in an increasingly digital world and how digital sending technology can address them.

Act on it: workflow-, operations- and document handling-specific checklists to help you determine if digital send technology is right for your organization.

Work with it: tips to help you seamlessly integrate digital send technology into your organization’s day-to-day processes.
Get help with it: a quick overview of HP’s comprehensive family of digital send hardware, software and services solutions. continue reading...

In living color
When was the last time you watched television on a black-and-white set? Or perused a black-and-white Website? There’s no getting around it: We live in a color world, and color has a tremendous impact on the way we think and feel about almost every aspect of our lives. This paper will explore what makes color such an important component of communication, why more and more organizations are increasingly incorporating color output into their everyday operations, and how color can dramatically improve the effectiveness of communications—from seemingly minor memos to major sales presentations—in virtually any organization.

The power of color
Consider just a few examples of the powerful impact of color in everyday life.
> When you’re driving on a highway and you see a large orange sign with black lettering on the roadside ahead, what does that tell you? Even if you’re too far away to read the text, you know to be on the alert for construction and related road hazards. That’s just one example of the ways in which color can be used to communicate important practical information to entire societies. continue reading...

The right color printing solution can reduce
costs and improve efficiency in a variety of
printing and imaging environments. The
following scenario describes how one
organization is using HP color printers to
bring a key printing function in-house—and
dramatically cut costs and increase efficiency.

Scenario for Improvement

The organization: Professional sports team

The situation: Need for an alternative to outsourcing of
season-ticket printing

The problems: High printing costs, slow turnarounds,
limited ability to accommodate change

The solution: HP Color LaserJet 9500 printers

The results: 54 percent reduction in ticket printing costs,
as well as faster delivery and increased flexibility continue reading...

Organizations that are incorporating color into their printing and imaging environments would like to be able to control access to color printing in order to maximize the return on their investments in color. This doesn’t simply mean limiting access to color, or placing controls on who uses color and who does not, although there is certainly value for some organizations in being able to do just that. But controlling access to color also means being able to monitor how color is used and to track usage by a variety of criteria, in order to make informed decisions that affect operational efficiency. And for some organizations, controlling access to color may also mean accurately determining color usage in order to bill clients or internal users for their usage. Applying color access controls in any or all of these ways enables organizations to use color as effectively and cost-efficiently as possible. continue reading...