HP Inc. today unveiled new ways for print service providers to grow
their digital-based business and put Industry 4.0 into practice by
enabling better automated tools to enhance connectivity,
productivity, and support customer growth as print service
providers move to capture online business.
“We are seeing strong customer momentum in the past year
alongside industry challenges created by the pandemic, with
Industry 4.0 being a driving force of growth for Indigo customers
who have embraced high-automation practices and adopt ecommerce
driven web-to-print business practices,” said Haim Levit, HP Indigo
Vice President and General Manager. HP attributes part of this
momentum in particular, from continued strong growth in Labels and
Packaging direct print volume growing 36%2 over 2019 levels and the
commercial sector’s continued recovery from pandemic headwinds.
PrintOS Site Flow, an
end-to-end production management solution for achieving zero-touch
automation has fueled an explosive growth in customer order traffic
through 2021. Connecting to over 600 brands globally, HP customers
tapped into myriad of online order systems and ecommerce platforms.
With Site Flow each PSP automatically receives, produces and ships
an unlimited number of jobs per day. Site Flow reduces bottlenecks,
touchpoints and labor-dollars, while being device and product
independent; many of the core principles on which Industry 4.0 was
built on.
Hundreds of PSPs are operating Site Flow daily, which saw a 65%
increase in job traffic in 20213. More than 460 million4 items were
processed through the secure online platform, operating in 45
countries to deliver print products such as photo books, calendars,
invitations, and greeting cards.
“COVID put a lot of power into the consumers’ hand, and our goal
was to be the premier B2C print fulfilment supplier in Canada. An
integral part of this is our ability to integrate our internal
systems with our B2C partners as quickly and efficiently as
possible,” said Todd Cober, President of Cober
Solutions. “Using Site Flow helps to reduce the roadblocks
altogether and enabled us to easily onboard new brands and grow our
business.”
“We use Site Flow to produce work for brands that generate
2,000-3,000 unique orders per day during peak season,” said Bill
Duerr, President of Hatteras. “There is a great team at Hatteras,
but labor shortages are real today. With Site Flow, I can give my
press room manager the tools he needs to maximize the productivity
of the good people we have.”
New Industry 4.0 solutions to drive growth through automation
and efficiency
Industry 4.0 practices are allowing HP Indigo print service
providers to deliver thousands of digital print jobs every day. As
a result, HP continues to invest and expand business possibilities
for PSPs.
Today, HP announced the PrintOS Integration Hub
@ hp.io, a portal where HP provides technical information on how to
integrate with HP Indigo devices and solutions, and achieve
automation across vendor solutions. Due to the upswing in ecommerce
orders, printers need to increase automation through multiple
systems, spanning from submission, printing, finishing and
fulfillment solutions, through to shipping and tracking.
“Automation is the only way to consistently deliver high volumes
of short run jobs while meeting customer’s quality and schedule
expectations,” said Gershon Alon, Head of HP Indigo Solutions.
“Customers are struggling to hire and maintain skilled personnel.
Cross-vendor automation increases employees’ efficiency and enables
the production of much more work with existing staff and
resources.”
An example of cross-vendor automation is the improved
integration between the PrintOS Production Pro DFE
for Commercial Print and Heidelberg
Prinect, which automates production and avoids
human errors. Customers can now maintain a unified automated
workflow, for both their analogue jobs and their digital Indigo
press jobs, and manage them from their Heidelberg MIS.
"The enhanced connectivity between Heidelberg Prinect and HP
Indigo presses enables Heidelberg customers to integrate the
Prinect Business Manager (MIS), the offset prepress capabilities,
and digital presses into one workflow," says Christopher Berti,
Vice President Product Management Prinect. “That brings the
benefits of higher efficiency, fully leveraging the original
investment (e.g. offset prepress system), and the flexibility of
using the same workflow for both worlds: offset and digital
printing. It helps close a major gap on the road to printshops
achieving end-to-end integration.”
“The Prinect integration with Indigo digital presses enables a
single data entry point via JDF, reduces touch points and therefore
human errors,” said Liesbeth Van Assche, Process Architect at
Artoos Group. “We send our jobs from Prinect to the HP Indigo
digital press and our press operator does not deal with any job
parameter settings, file preparation, imposition, or proofing.
Press operators are 100% focused on printing the job and insuring
the quality of the job.”
Automating color is also a key focus area for HP Indigo. On top
of the already-supported Idealliance G7 color certification,
PrintOS Color Beat now also
automates Fogra color certification for new-generation HP Indigo
commercial and labels-and-packaging presses including the HP indigo
100K, HP Indigo 15K, HP Indigo 12000 VP, HP Indigo 25K and HP
Indigo 35K.
The FograCert PSD Colour Data allows print service providers to
get a fully automated verification to the most widely used Fogra
color standards requested by print buyers and brands, validating
that the press meets the highest color standards. With a touch of a
button. The compliance of a given print job is certified against
Fogra PSD, ProcessStandard Digital (ISO/TS 15311-2) and can be
easily communicated with the print buyer, the brand or the QA
team.
Automatic Alert Agent 2.0 for HP Indigo Series
4 digital presses (HP Indigo 12000 and 15K). This inline inspection
system scans every printed sheet and compares it to its digital
print file, automatically identifying possible print defects. AAA
2.0 now automatically diverts defective sheets to scrap and
reprints them, all in real time with no human intervention, and no
interruption to production. The system leverages advanced Industry
4.0 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
algorithms, increasing accuracy and speed, to provide productivity
and profitability for PSPs.
About HP Inc.
HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) creates technology that makes life better
for everyone, everywhere. Through our product and service portfolio
of personal systems, printers and 3D printing solutions, we
engineer experiences that amaze. More information about HP Inc. is
available at www.hp.com.
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Graham Day, HP Inc.
- graham.day@hp.com
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