HP focuses on preferred partners

HP has integrated its commercial channel sales department into its solution partner organisation group to centralise its resources and help drive further growth, says VNUNet.

The vendor has also unveiled three new specialisations to its preferred partner programme, which it claims highlights its commitment to delivering value for partners. These include sales service, office printing and office printing solutions.

Sales service is targeted at HP preferred level partners that have proven expertise in HP services sales and are looking to further expand their HP services offerings. The office printing and office printing solutions form the new imaging and printing group office specialisation suite.

Security is a major concern for business today. Companies take extensive measures to protect corporate network infrastructures, yet overlook the security danger in the document printing environment, says SMBedge.

Printing devices have evolved in recent years to support features such as document archiving and scan-to-e-mail. This has made document production equipment as much a part of the corporate network as PCs and server systems.

Because of this expanded network functionality, measures must be taken to ensure integrity and accountability of data flow to and from these multifunction centres.

Kodak has opened a printing plate manufacturing facility in Xiamen, China. The facility will produce both digital and conventional printing plates for the growing China market and Asia Pacific region, according to Businesswire.

"The Xiamen plant significantly increases our total manufacturing capacity worldwide, which is critical to our customers as the demand for computer to plate printing solutions continues to grow," said Philip Faraci, president and COO of Eastman Kodak Company.

"It also provides a base of operations to increase our service and support for customers in China and the Asia Pacific," he adds.