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PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 24, 2008 – HP today announced that its expanded portfolio of innovative large-format printing solutions led to a highly successful exhibition for the company at SGIA ’08, held in Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 15–18.

A significant number of purchase contracts were completed at the show, demonstrating the high demand for HP’s new products, including the HP Scitex FB7500 Printer, HP Scitex FB950 Printer, HP Scitex TJ8550 Printer and the HP Designjet L65500 Printer. The HP stand featured the industry’s broadest portfolio of large-format printing technologies and solutions and was one of the largest booths at the exposition.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 13, 2008 - PTA and HP today announced one of the largest nationwide movie night events ever created for schools.

With more than 3,700 schools participating, “PTA Movie Night Live” is the first nationally coordinated event where families in local communities across the country are coming together to enjoy a free showing of DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda,” only days after the film’s DVD release.

ATLANTA, Nov. 13, 2008 -- UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced it is deploying a new combination scanner and paperless printing device from HP that will print millions of sorting labels directly on packages, helping the world’s largest delivery company reduce operational costs while slashing its consumption of paper.

“Leveraging technology innovation is critical in today’s tough, competitive economy,” said Dave Barnes, senior vice president and CIO of UPS. “The new HP handheld device means increased efficiency and effectiveness at a lower cost, with less waste. This is a perfect example of how technology helps to drive business solutions at UPS.”

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November 11, 2008 - In 1971, Bill Hewlett, co-founder of HP, said, “The deepening concern for preservation of the environment involves the whole basic question of man on this earth: How may the earth’s resources be preserved?” From recycling computer printouts and punch cards in 1971, to creating a hardware recycling program in 1987 and initiating the HP Planet Partners program in 1991 to reclaim and recycle used HP print cartridges, processing them to recover plastics and metals for new products and diverting millions of tons of waste from landfills, HP has been involved in the environmental movement for decades.

What’s the difference between color and black-and-white printing? It may seem like a simple question on the surface. But when it comes to everyday office printing, there are more differences between the two than you may realize—in cost, technology, functionality and other factors—and more similarities, too. If you’re thinking about incorporating more color into your office printing environment, you need to understand all these differences and similarities in order to make effective (not to mention cost-effective) choices.

“To put color print pricing in context, in 1994 a typical departmental-sized black-and-white laser printer would cost you around $5000 with a per-page price of about 8 or 9 cents. For less than that cost today, you can have a high-quality color printer. The idea that color is too expensive for in-house, everyday use is as antiquated as that 1994 black-and-white laser printer.”

–Don Jones, The Definitive Guide to Office Color Printing

Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan since 1914, Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC) provides more than 1,600 liberal arts and occupational courses to over 15,000 students, and another nearly 8,000 learners are served by non-credit instructional opportunities. By being student-centered, collaborative, flexible, and affordable, GRCC has maintained a solid reputation as a premier transfer institution and is nationally recognized for both its liberal arts and occupational programs.

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For Doug Miller, Director of Print Solutions at GRCC, the need for an agile, cost-effective, and reliable print infrastructure is critical to meeting the requirements of students, faculty, and staff to help keep the College affordable and attractive to a wide section of the surrounding population. He  explains, “Things are constantly changing at GRCC to improve our educational offerings – new courses are made available, facilities are reconfigured, new project teams assembled, etc. – so it’s extremely important that our IT environment is flexible and able to adapt with us as GRCC grows and evolves.”

Captaris® is a Hewlett-Packard (HP) Business Partner and since 1998 has joined with HP to improve organizational efficiency by getting the right documents into the hands of the right people, faster, more productively and more costeffectively than before.

Captaris RightFax integrates with HP MFPs to consolidate all faxing services on the network, giving users convenient access to faxing capabilities on the same devices used daily for printing, scanning and copying, plus giving the company better control over document flow and security. With RightFax users gain both easy walk-up access and a central point of control for electronic or hard copy faxing. This enables them to streamline document flow processes and save time and money on administrative tasks.

Tested and integrated with HP MFPs, including HP Digital Senders, RightFax is the ideal solution for organizations that want to further utilize their HP infrastructure for all their document development, duplication and distribution needs.

One way to control your costs for color printing is to charge them back to those who are doing the printing. Charging back these costs can help reduce operational costs in two ways.

1. Internal users who are billed for all or some of their color printing are likely to be more aware of, and more mindful about, how much they print—and, as a result, more judicious in their use of printing resources. This can result in less usage.

2. By billing external users, organizations can eliminate, or at least significantly reduce, the color printing and copying costs that they normally absorb on behalf of their clients or patrons.

Opportunities to charge back color printing In addition to charging back color printing costs to internal and external users, organizations can charge back by group or individual. Opportunities
for charging back might include:

• departments within a larger organization
• offices in remote locations
• clients of professional firms
• individual users of institutional resources

1. Spend less time managing devices IT departments spend 15% of their time on printer related issues.1 Consolidation results in fewer hardcopy devices to manage and a smaller inventory of supplies and spare parts to maintain. Plus, network integration makes MFPs easier and less expensive to support than their standalone counterparts.

2. Reduce time spent walking from device to device by combining printing, copying, faxing, scanning and digital sending (scan to email, folder, etc.) in a single device, MFPs give information workers network access to all the capabilities they need to effectively and efficiently handle digital and paper documents.

3. Experience fewer network bottlenecks Where some competitive devices force you to accept performance/print-quality tradeoffs, HP LaserJet and Color LaserJet MFPs feature advanced processing and imaging technology, ensuring you of consistently high-quality output at full engine speeds…

CHICAGO, November 4, 2008—HP today announced that several new solutions from its Graphics Solutions Business (GSB) were honored in the 2008 Must See ’Ems awards program. Two newly launched HP GSB solutions were named Must See ’Ems products and one solution earned the program’s Future Print recognition. In addition, an HP digital press was named an Encore Still Worth-A-Look.