Saturday, July 21, 2012


Five new solutions to help businesses enhance efficiency and securityof their information-management processes
July 20, 2012, New Delhi: Hewlett-Packard Indiatoday announced the launch of five new Imaging and Printing solutions specially designed to meet the needs of the SMB 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.
Speaking on the occasion, Nitin Hiranandani, Director, Printing Systems, PPS, India,“Mid-sized businesses in India are today demanding the same sophisticated solutions-enabled printing devicesthat have helped larger enterprises to optimize their imaging and printing infrastructure. With today’s 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 businesses the advantages of a secure and managed print environment, reduced costs, and the ability to control their printing fleet in an optimized 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.”
Print on-the-go with mobile printing solution
HP ePrint Enterprise mobile printing solutionunleashes 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. It is a driverless printing application that can integrate with your existing IT environment. The simple email-to-print capability allows you to send a print job from a business email address to the company’s networked printers that have been assigned an email address.
Manage green quotient along with business operations
HP EcoSMART Fleetallows 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% and save up to 80% on energy usage in managed print operations through focused management of their printing and imaging environment.It works by collecting data from HP Web Jetadmin software and the HP Carbon Footprint Calculator, real-time status overviews are displayed. One can run scenarios to understand how limiting energy and carbon usage,as well as spending, might impact productivity. Easily maps consumption overtime, user defined, identifies high-consuming devices, and pinpoint opportunities for savings.
Secure your print environment
HP Imaging and Printing Security Centerisindustry’s first fleet-level policy-based security solution that helps increase security, strengthen compliance, and reduce risk across your fleet of Imaging and printing devices. Allows to securely deploy and monitor devices as soon as they are added to the network byusing HP Instant-on Security. Unique to HP IPSC, HP Instant-on Security automatically connects HP devices to the solution and immediately configures them to be compliant with the specific corporate security policy—saving time.It’s simple to enhance the policy for increased security beyond the baseline for specific departments or groups, such as your legal team.
Control and Manage your Print Environment
HP Access Control Expresscombines cost-control and security features. Offersusers 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. Track detailed usage information for printers and MFPs. Create and customize built-in reports to address specific questions and concerns about printer usage by user, per device and department. HP AC Mobile Release increases convenience by allowing users to easily authenticate and release print jobs using their mobile device.
HP Access Control Professional adding to thecost-control and security featuresof HPAC Express supports authentication through employee card access, allows managers to set and manage print policies. The new featuresinclude 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 Intelligent Print Management Module helps create custom printing rules for a smarter printing environment and help conserve energy and supplies by allocating costs by department. Hundreds of built-in, customizable reports can communicate the value and impact of printing, while the quota feature helps contain costs by allowing administrators to set print page volume limits for user groups.
HP solutions and services pricing and availability varies by number of licenses, devices, no of employees and region.
Built on HP’s Open Extensibility Platform
The solutions launched today are built on Open Extensibility Platform, HP’s device-independent technology1 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.

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Editorial contacts
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Printing and Personal Systems Group
HP India
+91 124 2726285
Anirudh Chouhan
The PRactice for HP
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