HP Launches Imaging And Printing Solutions For SMEs

Hewlett-Packard India has announced the launch of five new Imaging and Printing solutions specially designed to meet the needs of the SME and mid-market segments. These solutions help businesses increase efficiency and control and secure their information-management processes.

The solutions launched include: HP ePrint Enterprise mobile printing, HP EcoSMART Fleet, HP Imaging and Printing Security Center, HP Access Control Professional and HP Access Control Express.

Nitin Hiranandani, Director, Printing Systems, PPS, India, “Mid-sized enterprises in India are today demanding the same sophisticated solutions-enabled printing devices that have helped larger enterprises to optimise their imaging and printing infrastructure. With this launch, we are addressing the evolving business needs of our customers by offering them five new solutions which will improve their work-flow efficiency, enhance security and increase operational efficiencies, and lower the environmental impact.”

Gurpreet Kanwal, Country Business Manager, PMPS and Solutions, PPS, HP India said, “HP’s imaging and printing solutions are designed to offer small and medium enterprises the advantages of a secure and managed print environment, reduced costs, and the ability to control their printing fleet in an optimised manner. These solutions will help businesses create intelligent and smart printing infrastructure, which in turn will help them reduce cost and increase productivity, while lowering the environmental impact at the same time.”

HP ePrint Enterprise mobile printing solution unleashes the full potential of mobile devices. It allows you to print documents efficiently with enterprise-level security, sending print jobs from remote locations for printing on arrival. It is a cloud-enabled web service that allows mobile users to easily print documents, presentations, reports and photos from an e-mail application to any registered network printer across the enterprise.

HP EcoSMART Fleet allows you to see your energy and resource use from one intuitive and easy to use interface. Gives you the information required to effectively monitor, manage, and control the environmental impact of your fleet. Businesses can reduce costs up to 30 percent and save up to 80 percent on energy usage in managed print operations through focused management of their printing and imaging environment.

HP Imaging and Printing Security Center is a fleet-level policy-based security solution that helps increase security, strengthen compliance, and reduce risk across your fleet of imaging and printing devices. It allows you to securely deploy and monitor devices as soon as they are added to the network by using HP Instant-on Security.

HP Access Control Express combines cost-control and security features. Offers users to print once to the server and “pull” jobs to any pull print-enabled HP LaserJet device. Pull printing virtually eliminates unclaimed documents hence wastage, enhances security by requiring authentication before releasing.

HP Access Control Professional adding to the cost-control and security features of HPAC Express supports authentication through employee card access, allows managers to set and manage print policies. The new features include server-less pull printing, which lower costs, dual-factor authentication (pull and card) which adds an additional level to safeguard; and the ability to send jobs via email, which increases productivity.

The solutions launched are built on Open Extensibility Platform, HP’s device-independent technology that allows them to work across a fleet of both old and new devices. Businesses do not need to buy new devices in order to support the latest solutions; because all devices support one version of a solution and one solution supports multiple devices. These solutions can also reside on a FutureSmart server, which helps businesses future proof the imaging and printing fleet. It also allows one to manage solutions in the same way one monitors and controls the devices—using HP Web Jetadmin.

With HP FutureSmart firmware, the entire fleet of HP FutureSmart devices can be updated with new features and capabilities as they emerge. Enterprise users can now enjoy a consistent, up-to-date experience, no matter which device they use. From a single console, the IT staff can remotely deploy HP FutureSmart updates across the entire fleet, ensuring keeping pace with technology is quick and easy.