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LAS VEGAS, March 2, 2009 - HP today expanded its professional printing portfolio as part of its effort to target the estimated $663 billion page-value opportunity for the global graphic arts market and accelerate the analog to digital transformation.⁽¹⁾

Unveiled at the 2009 PMA tradeshow in booth F150, HP’s comprehensive portfolio of digital printing solutions is designed to help creative and technical professionals explore new business opportunities – from gallery-quality prints to technical drawings and proofing. continue reading...

Did you hear the one a few years back about the intern who faxed some charts to a team of reviewers in advance of a meeting—with a cover note directing their attention to the figures in green? Quite a faux pas in the days before color faxes. But it’s no joke: Color can be one of the most powerful tools at an organization’s disposal when it comes to organizing information, increasing understanding, and making people and operations more productive and efficient. And today, the technology for color printing to help achieve these ends is more advanced, accessible and affordable than ever.

“If you want to understand how color impacts us, next time you get in the car, take note of how you stop at red and go on green. Color plays a big role in persuasion. We should understand its value.”

–Bryan Eisenberg, ”The Color of Money,” ClickZ Network continue reading...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 29, 2009 – HP today announced the launch of a compact, low-cost imaging platform for continuous-form, label and flexible media color printers based on HP’s patented Scalable Printing Technology (SPT).

The new HP Scanning Imager 1100 for the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) market offers fast color printing at speeds up to 3.4 inches per second with low intervention rates, low running costs and high efficiency. HP partners will show the first end-user products to incorporate this imager at several upcoming events for the label and packaging, petroleum exploration and geoscience industries.

“The HP Scanning Imager 1100 offers key enhancements that take fast, low-cost and high-quality SPT inkjet imaging to new markets in ways that emphasize HP’s abiding commitment to customer success for OEMs and their clients,” said Kathy Tobin, vice president and general manager, HP Specialty Printing Systems (SPS). continue reading...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 22, 2009 – HP today announced it has completed its most successful year in the graphic arts industry to date, building on increased sales activity, leads and interest from its first announcement of new-platform technologies in March, through the debut of those solutions at drupa in May, to subsequent fulfillment of sales in the months following the show.

HP’s organizational unit serving this industry, the Graphics Solutions Business (GSB), made a series of significant announcements during 2008, including the integration of acquired assets from NUR Macroprinters and MacDermid ColorSpan, the unveiling of a new HP Inkjet Web Press and Latex Ink/Wide Scan platforms utilizing HP Scalable Printing Technology (SPT), and the announcement of a new HP SmartStream graphic arts workflow and next-generation HP Indigo digital press models.

During the year, HP has extended its market stance as the leading provider of digital color printing solutions to the graphic arts. For the HP Indigo business, worldwide page growth exceeded 30 percent year over year. continue reading...

HP today announced industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has positioned it in the Leaders Quadrant of its “Magic Quadrant for MFPs and Printers” report.⁽¹⁾

The Gartner Magic Quadrant positions vendors based on their “ability to execute” and their “completeness of vision.”

According to the analyst firm, vendors are assessed on weighted criteria, including products or services, sales execution and pricing, market responsiveness and track record, marketing execution, customer experience, offering strategy, business model, and geographic strategy. continue reading...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 24, 2008 – HP today announced that its expanded portfolio of innovative large-format printing solutions led to a highly successful exhibition for the company at SGIA ’08, held in Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 15–18.

A significant number of purchase contracts were completed at the show, demonstrating the high demand for HP’s new products, including the HP Scitex FB7500 Printer, HP Scitex FB950 Printer, HP Scitex TJ8550 Printer and the HP Designjet L65500 Printer. The HP stand featured the industry’s broadest portfolio of large-format printing technologies and solutions and was one of the largest booths at the exposition. continue reading...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 13, 2008 - PTA and HP today announced one of the largest nationwide movie night events ever created for schools.

With more than 3,700 schools participating, “PTA Movie Night Live” is the first nationally coordinated event where families in local communities across the country are coming together to enjoy a free showing of DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda,” only days after the film’s DVD release. continue reading...

From BLI

November 11, 2008 - In 1971, Bill Hewlett, co-founder of HP, said, “The deepening concern for preservation of the environment involves the whole basic question of man on this earth: How may the earth’s resources be preserved?” From recycling computer printouts and punch cards in 1971, to creating a hardware recycling program in 1987 and initiating the HP Planet Partners program in 1991 to reclaim and recycle used HP print cartridges, processing them to recover plastics and metals for new products and diverting millions of tons of waste from landfills, HP has been involved in the environmental movement for decades. continue reading...

What’s the difference between color and black-and-white printing? It may seem like a simple question on the surface. But when it comes to everyday office printing, there are more differences between the two than you may realize—in cost, technology, functionality and other factors—and more similarities, too. If you’re thinking about incorporating more color into your office printing environment, you need to understand all these differences and similarities in order to make effective (not to mention cost-effective) choices.

“To put color print pricing in context, in 1994 a typical departmental-sized black-and-white laser printer would cost you around $5000 with a per-page price of about 8 or 9 cents. For less than that cost today, you can have a high-quality color printer. The idea that color is too expensive for in-house, everyday use is as antiquated as that 1994 black-and-white laser printer.”

–Don Jones, The Definitive Guide to Office Color Printing continue reading...

One way to control your costs for color printing is to charge them back to those who are doing the printing. Charging back these costs can help reduce operational costs in two ways.

1. Internal users who are billed for all or some of their color printing are likely to be more aware of, and more mindful about, how much they print—and, as a result, more judicious in their use of printing resources. This can result in less usage.

2. By billing external users, organizations can eliminate, or at least significantly reduce, the color printing and copying costs that they normally absorb on behalf of their clients or patrons.

Opportunities to charge back color printing In addition to charging back color printing costs to internal and external users, organizations can charge back by group or individual. Opportunities
for charging back might include: continue reading...

• departments within a larger organization
• offices in remote locations
• clients of professional firms
• individual users of institutional resources