Overview

HP Web Jetadmin has the ability to discover non-HP printers connected to the network via non-HP print server devices. By supporting third party printers, HP offers a network printer management solution that drives an additional step further toward the “one-stop-shopping” concept that LAN administrators desire. LAN administrators will now be able to discover and manage printers offered by all major printer vendors from a single software interface.

Discovery

During discovery of devices, HP Web Jetadmin uses SNMP queries to gather information from the printer and print server device. If HP Web Jetadmin concludes that the device is a peripheral such as a printer, plotter, multi-function device, etc., it will display it in the list of discovered devices. In order for HP Web Jetadmin to conclude that a device is a peripheral, the device must be able to answer a set of basic questions.

A MIB (Management Information Base) is a set of objects that defines the types of SNMP queries that can be asked of a device. For example, the Standard Printer MIB (RFC 1759) is a generic set of objects to which most peripherals should be able to provide answers when queried. The Standard Printer MIB consists of objects that describe functionality and capabilities of the printer uch as page counts, media types, etc. Other common MIBs include MIB-II (RFC 1213) and the Host Resources MIB (RFC 1514).

Devices must be able to answer queries defined in these common MIBs in order for HP Web Jetadmin to discover the devices. Otherwise, there is not enough information pertaining to the device to warrant displaying it in the list of discovered devices. HP Web Jetadmin focuses on printer management, and it would be increasingly difficult to distinguish devices as printers unless they can answer a standard set of questions such as those defined in the Standard Printer MIB.

From the moment you turn on your workstations in the morning, what are you trying to do? What’s a “winning day?”
Is it designing a better component—getting a healthy pat on the back for ingenuity? Or cleverly finding an extra .01%
margin in a series of stock trades, yielding a sizeable commission? Maybe it’s polishing up the last 20 seconds of
video in an awesome ad campaign, putting a huge smile on the client’s face?

These objectives can be met (and you can have a winning day)—it just takes the right tools. For most engineers/
designers/financial analysts/artists, the desktop personal workstation is the primary tool that can help make a day
successful. That winning day largely depends on leveraging the innovation displayed by the workstation vendor—in
effect, you’re looking for a good ROI (Return on Innovation).

HP’s new HP Z Workstations takes performance and reliability to the next level in nearly every aspect of workstation
design. Depending upon how the workstation and its applications are used, technological innovations in the following
areas will directly improve productivity.

3M is fundamentally a science-based company. It produces thousands of imaginative products such as Post-it notes and is a leader in scores of markets from healthcare and highway safety to office products, abrasives and adhesives. With recent annual global sales of US$2 billion, it has 75,000 employees and operates in more than 65 countries.

One of those is Australia where 3M is headquartered in Pymble, New South Wales. 3M Australia has 14 sites with more than 700 employees and generated recent annual sales of US$420 million.

3M Australia moves towards a total document solution with HP Managed Print Services
3M Australia had a multi-vendor fleet of 130 devices which was complex and expensive to manage and maintain. At a global level, 3M Group also felt that its print, copy and fax fleets were inefficient and expensive so from the headquarters in St Paul, Minnesota, it negotiated a global Managed Print Services (MPS) contract with HP.

SAVINGS AND EFFICIENCIES
In Australia, this five year MPS contract generated significant savings and efficiencies so with the agreement of the global HQ, it has recently been renewed. Under the agreement, 3M pays a monthly fee consisting of a base rate and a ‘click charge’ based on actual page volumes. The agreement also covers print cartridges and repair/maintenance services.

Established in 1912 as a small, three-man commercial print shop, Schmidt Printing today is a major supplier of direct marketing and other print services. The Byron, Minnesota-based printer specializes in medium-run web printing for direct marketers and a variety of other customers, including magazine, newspaper and card pack publishers and multi-channel merchants.

In 2009, Schmidt expanded its capabilities further by adding digital printing capabilities to its offering.

“A year ago, one of our largest customers was looking for a way to print a huge quantity of short-run, personalized postcards—about 1,000 cards per run, and millions of them per week,” says Jeff Winter, Director of Sales and Marketing at Schmidt. “The only way to provide short-run quantities at the volume they were requesting  was with digital printing technology.”

“That’s when we started looking for a single solution that could offer variable data while cost-effectively handle a high volume of short run jobs,” says Winter.  Schmidt reached out to its parent company,  Taylor Corporation in Mankato, Minnesota, to help identify digital technology options that would meet their customer’s request—and at a competitive price point. Taylor is one of the ten largest graphic arts companies in the world, with over 90 locations around the globe, and  has a long history working with HP to provide end-to-end graphic arts solutions.

Working together with Taylor’s management team, Schmidt considered a number of digital printing solutions before selecting an HP Indigo W7200 Digital Press.

“Installation happened very fast,” recalls Winter. “I have to give HP kudos—within two months, we went from the purchase order to having the press on our floor and running live product.”