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HP today announced two enterprise imaging and printing solutions for the financial services and public sector markets.

The offerings build upon HP's Print 2.0 strategy by providing industry-specific offerings that streamline workflows and reduce costs for enterprises.

HP Compliant Document Capture for Financial Services helps financial institutions streamline critical document workflows, while simultaneously providing the increased document security, audit trails and archival capabilities required by industry regulations.

HP Document Capture Solution for Evidence of Identity is designed to help government agencies securely process and issue identity documents such as driver's licenses and passports.

Both were introduced at the company's annual enterprise customer and partner conference, ImagePrint 2007.

Also at the event, HP recognized several partners that have achieved Platinum and Gold-level memberships in the HP Solutions Business Partner Program - a standards-based program for companies whose solutions interoperate and integrate with HP offerings to address customers' specific business challenges.

"Enterprise customers are facing new challenges and opportunities with how paper-based and digital information is used and managed," said Bruce Dahlgren, senior vice president, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. "By helping businesses develop practical plans to optimize and manage their infrastructures and workflows, HP is making our customers' devices more strategic while meeting their environmental objectives."

Improving workflows for financial services and public sector organizations

HP Compliant Document Capture for Financial Services is a bundled solution of HP multifunction printers and HP Scanjet scanners, software and services that help financial institutions comply with the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). The directive requires financial services firms operating within the European Union and the European Economic Area to maintain for five years all transaction records, including paper, emails and electronically formatted documents, relating to any securities transaction in a non-rewritable and non-erasable format.

The solution complements the recently announced HP Compliant Document Capture Solution for SEC Regulation 17a.

HP Document Capture Solution for Evidence of Identity is powered by HP hardware, software and services, and captures, stores and retrieves important identity documents so government agencies can accurately issue citizen documentation, such as state and national ID cards or passports, with enhanced security features. The offering allows for comprehensive audits of workflow environments to help agencies comply with global identity regulatory requirements.

Effective December 2009, the U.S. REAL ID Act of 2005, intended to assure identity, mandates national standards for state-issued driver's licenses and non-driver's identification cards. HP's new solution effectively and seamlessly integrates these new requirements into government document and information workflows to enable a more effective and secure archival process.

Everybody loves an award, and HP is no exception.  It’s that gold star that quickly tells others you stand out. And so it is very exciting to all of the employees at HP who worked on the CM8060 to receive an award from Microsoft for a product that we think rocks.  Yes, it’s big. HP was selected from among more than 15,000 vendors whom Microsoft works with in the United States. These Microsoft®  Vendor Program (MSVP) Excellence Awards are given out annually to vendors for outstanding service and results to Microsoft.

The HP CM8060 MFP received the “Technology Award” for the integration of the Microsoft Windows® XP Embedded operating system within the device. Microsoft is thrilled to have this capability in one device because it provides better integration with Microsoft products, improves manageability, is easily supported, and provides an overall better user experience.

“Selecting the MSVP Award winners is always a challenge, and this year proved no exception,” said Tim McBride, general manager and chief procurement officer at Microsoft. “It’s my privilege to say that the six vendors we recognize today truly stand out, and the exceptional service they deliver is invaluable to our company and our customers.” (Redmond, Wash, Oct. 5, 2007)

You can hear more about Microsoft’s experience with the CM8060 MFP at the upcoming Image Print event next month in Phoenix, Arizona.

Click here to read the full Microsoft press release.

Lowering the cost of color printing is one of the top priorities for printing purchasers. The people who pay for color printing understand it costs more because there is more coverage (ink or toner) on the page, but they always ask: “What can be done to get that page cost as close to printing it in black only?”

There are several ways we help lower and manage the cost of color printing with unique features in the MFPs with Edgeline Technology that we believe give us a leg up versus the traditional copier technology using laser imaging.

We have 3 types of color ‘click charges’ in MFPs with Edgeline Technology. Current copier technology products use 1 click charge for any type of color document.

Professional Color Print Mode gives you print quality that you expect from your office color MFP – excellent quality to use in your color prints. This is what professionals use when printing color for “high-stakes” communication documents.

General Office Color Print Mode simply reduces the saturation of the color in an office document. This is nothing like a traditional draft mode. Monochrome text is identically dark and opaque as in professional color documents, and color is printed with equal resolution but less saturation on general office color pages than on professional color pages. I expect that General Office Color Print Mode page pricing to be nearly 20 percent less than Professional Office Color Print Mode pricing.

Both of these modes can be selected at the driver or at the control panel of the device by the user. Or you can limit certain users and some applications to the mode you desire. For example: limiting Word document printing to General Office Print Mode, or defaulting PowerPoint to Professional Color Print Mode. (See Color Access Controls below).

Additionally, we have a Color Accent Print Mode. Have you ever thought “Why should I pay 7 to 10 times the amount of a monochrome page click price for color when there’s only a small amount of color on this page? This print mode automatically counts any pages with a small amount of color and offers a monochrome -type price when you print only a small amount of color.
These three modes are unique to MFPs with Edgeline Technology and are great ways to manage the cost of color printing to be much lower than any other alternative.

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HP today unveiled “Print 2.0,” the company’s strategy for making printing relevant and empowering as both personal and professional content increasingly moves from the desktop to the web.

At HP’s annual Imaging and Printing Conference this morning, Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of the company’s Imaging and Printing Group, described how HP will seek to capture a significant share of the 53 trillion digital pages estimated to be printed in 2010 alone – an opportunity valued at more than $296 billion.

Joshi identified three key areas of focus of the Print 2.0 strategy:

• Make it easier to print from websites, such as blogs and travel sites, and bring new printing capabilities to online properties;
• Extend the company’s digital content creation and publishing platforms – for example, Snapfish and Logoworks – across customer segments spanning from consumers to enterprises; and
• Deliver a digital printing platform that increases print speeds and lowers the cost of printing for high-volume commercial markets.

In its enterprise imaging and printing portfolio, HP also announced new applications, services and an enhanced solution partner program to help businesses improve their imaging and printing workflow, management and infrastructure.

“Today, we’re introducing a new era in printing. We’re redefining what it means to print and further accelerating the transformation from analog to digital printed pages,” said Joshi. “In today’s world of ‘mashed media’ – words, pictures, video, songs – the question becomes ‘How will people publish this content?’ Print 2.0 is the answer. This vision centers on empowering our customers to create and consume their content, their way.”

Making the web more print-friendly

Content from the Internet accounts for nearly half (48 percent) of all printing done at home. Yet, many of the most popular destinations on the web – such as blogs and travel sites – have limited or non-existent printing capabilities. In an effort to broaden and improve the web-printing experience, HP is creating technologies to make it easy to print content from the Internet in a useful format.

The company is working with a number of leading Internet destinations and hosting companies to either improve their digital printing capabilities or introduce new ones. For example, HP has collaborated with ViaMichelin, a leading map provider in Europe with more than 28 million monthly visits to its online mapping service. ViaMichelin’s website now offers customers improved map-printing by better aligning what is seen on-screen with what is printed on the page, as well as with how maps are used once people are on the road.

HP also has teamed with leading weblog software and services company SixApart, Ltd., creators of Movable Type, the world’s most advanced blogging platform, to enable bloggers to add a “print” button on their blogs. Movable Type powers many of the world’s most popular blogs, including BoingBoing.net and Dooce.com, which will feature printing functionality. The new blog-printing “widget” on these sites will allow readers to pick and choose the posts they want to print, and skip those they don’t. The blog printing plug-in for Movable Type is currently in beta release and is expected to become widely available to users by June 29th.

HP also plans to introduce the Tabblo Print Toolkit, an embeddable website widget and corresponding web service that enables web designers to incorporate print functionality into new and existing websites. The toolkit is based on custom template technology developed by Tabblo, a company HP acquired in March, that allows users to simply and efficiently arrange content for printing. The Tabblo Print Toolkit is expected to become available by June 29th.

Improving enterprise time to business

HP has added eight imaging and printing solutions to its enterprise portfolio targeted to customers in the higher education, public sector, retail, transportation/logistics and financial services industries. Designed to streamline information workflows and reduce costs, these applications offer customers industry-specific expertise and a single point of contact for a simplified sales process, service and support. These include:

• Four HP Campus Advantage Solutions targeted to institutions of higher learning. The solutions deliver powerful capabilities ranging from mobile printing and user-based, per-page accounting, to the consolidation of copying, scanning, imaging and printing devices in a secure networked environment.
• For government and public sector customers, the HP Common Access Card enables secure imaging and printing network authentication.
• The HP Retail Marketing Automation application transforms the manual, labor-intensive in-store promotion and communication process into an industrial, automated one, allowing for quicker time to market.
• For financial services customers, HP Compliant Document Capture for SEC17a meets the needs of capturing regulated fax, email, scan and couriered mail documentation quickly and easily at the point of creation.
• A first of its kind, the new HP Handheld sp400 All-in-One (AiO), which is aimed at industries such as transportation/logistics, manufacturing and retail, simplifies workflow and operations with a portable, easy-to-use, high-performance printing solution that applies an image directly to packaging or other surface, eliminating the cost and time needed for labeling operations.

HP also introduced four HP Managed Print Services that enable enterprise customers to optimize and manage their enterprise imaging and printing environments for improved business results. The new services include the HP Print Center Transformation Service, HP Integrated Print Management Service, HP Onsite Document Consultant Service and HP Universal Print Driver Consulting Service.

Additionally, the company is now providing enterprise customers with unprecedented access to the latest HP and partner technology via the HP Solutions Business Partner Program. Under the program’s new Platinum, Gold and Silver tiers, HP partners will benefit in reaching a broader market while HP provides a single point of contact for products, support and services for enterprise customers.

Helping small businesses improve marketing effectiveness and productivity

Building on the success of the HP Color Printing Center, HP has expanded its in-house marketing tools and resources for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) with HP In-House Marketing Resource Center software.

This free tool provides users with convenient desktop access to all of HP’s in-house marketing resources and new specialized tools for greater cost savings, flexibility and control, such as:

• HP Print Cost Estimator: This tool quickly highlights the cost advantages of printing specific jobs in-house versus outsourcing and is available on networked HP Color LaserJet printers.
• HP Print View Software: This software enables customers to dynamically view the actual output of marketing documents before they hit “print.”

The new HP Color LaserJet CP3505 will be the first printer to ship with these marketing software tools and resources. The printer is designed to boost productivity and deliver bold, brilliant color materials at speeds of up to 22 pages per minute in best print quality default mode. The HP Color LaserJet CP3505 will be available worldwide June 1 with estimated U.S. street prices ranging from $699 to $1,449.⁽¹⁾

Backed by a network of experienced graphic designers, HP’s Logoworks is now offering Office Depot’s “Design, Print & Ship Depot” customers custom logo packages, business cards, professional letterhead and website design services. Customers can choose from a number of graphic design solutions all aimed at helping their businesses succeed. The service is currently available in Office Depot’s more than 1,000 stores nationwide.

Faster decision making with HP Halo

The Halo Video Exchange Network that makes the HP Halo Collaboration Studio’s telepresence possible now circumnavigates the globe. The dedicated fiber optic network was created by HP in partnership with many of the world’s leading telecommunications providers, including Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL). In April, VSNL and HP signed an agreement that connected the network from India to Europe via the Middle East.

The extension of the network further improves Halo users’ perception of no delay and gives added business continuity protection to customers by enabling automatic re-routing of Halo connections during earthquakes or other disasters that can disrupt all forms of network traffic.

More information

Further details on today’s announcements and video of Joshi’s presentation on the future of digital printing and imaging in the Web 2.0 era are available in an online press kit at www.hp.com/go/2007ipgconference.

About HP

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