HP held its annual global Imaging and Printing Conference in Shanghai on September 13th 2011 and announced several new innovations, collaborations, apps and solutions for all types of users – from consumers and small to midsize businesses (SMBs), to enterprise organisations and graphic arts customers.
HP also announced that customer adoption of its cloud-enabled, web-connected print technologies has reached the mainstream, with more than 10 million printers sold to date.
“HP’s history of innovation runs deep and the company continues to leverage that legacy and build on it for future growth,” said Vyomesh Joshi, Executive Vice President, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. “While printing in the traditional sense will continue to be integral to what HP brings to the world, the intention is to continue disrupting the market with leading innovations beyond the page as well.”
For SMBs
Some of the innovative products on show included the HP TopShot LaserJet Pro M275 for scanning of 3-D objects. It’s equipped with HP TopShot Scanning, a revolutionary technology that captures six separate images of a document or 3-D object and produces one final seamless image of exceptional quality - ideal for printed materials or on the web.
HP also showed off the new HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One series and HP Officejet Pro 8100 ePrinter designed to deliver professional quality colour documents which they claim gives up to 50% lower cost per page than laser printers, and enable printing from virtually anywhere when using mobile devices with HP ePrint.
Other devices included new HP Business Apps such as Biz Card Scanning and Receipt Scanning Apps from Shoeboxed.
HP also is making its enterprise-level technologies accessible to SMBs. After its recent acquisition of Printelligent, a leader in managed print services (MPS), they are rolling out HP Partner Managed Print Services, the first of several channel-enabled MPS offerings that HP plans to launch over the next year. In addition, they have added several HP Document Solutions – including HP Access Control Express, HP and Nuance eCopy ShareScan and HP and Capella FormPort to its portfolio for the solutions specialist channel to sell.
New HP LaserJet printers, Scanjet printer for businesses of all sizes
HP also introduced two HP LaserJet printers and a HP Scanjet printer that facilitate mobility and workflow for businesses at the Shanghai event.
HP LaserJet Enterprise M600, M601, M602 and M603 printer series – a secure, network managed and easy-to-use web-enabled monochrome printer series engineered to help businesses increase efficiency on high-volume document printing.
The HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 colour M551 series – an HP ePrint-enabled printer ideal for enterprise and SMB work teams who want professional-quality colour and advanced print management tools.
Also on show was the HP Scanjet Enterprise 8500fn1 Document Capture Workstation – a scanner optimised for workgroups with high-volume scanning needs, featuring an easy-to-use, large colour touch screen.
Mobile solutions for consumers and businesses
One other interesting development shown was the cloud-unified HP ePrint app for BlackBerry ® smartphones which allows BlackBerry users to print with one app to three cloud solutions: HP ePrint-enabled printers, HP Enterprise printers and HP Public Print Location printers.
www.hp.com/ie/officejet
www.hp.com/ie/eprintcenter
www.hp.com/go/mobile-printing-solutions
