HP Inc. South Africa has launched more than 15 PageWide, OfficeJet Pro and LaserJet printers, and new Secure Managed Print Services offering to customers and partners in Johannesburg.

HP Inc.’s new portfolio of business printers, includes:

• A new brand of HP PageWide printers that provide professional colour, low cost of ownership, fast speeds, great energy efficiency, and our best in class security management features;
• New OfficeJet Pro printers that deliver affordable, professional colour and big performance in a compact package for small businesses;
• New LaserJet printers with phenomenal laser performance, print-shop quality colour documents, and best value for black-and-white printing;
• HP Secure Managed Print Services to help customers secure their print environment with our deepest embedded security.

 A new era of Business Printing with HP PageWide

HP PageWide Technology is a proven, reliable scalable print technology developed by HP that has delivered more than 140 billion high quality digital pages via HP printers including large format printers and web presses. Early next year, HP will further expand the reach of PageWide Technology to redefine the copier market with a new portfolio of A3 printers and multifunction printers (MFPs).

 The new HP PageWide business portfolio will be available through channel partners and at select retail stores.

New Additions to the HP OfficeJet Pro and LaserJet Pro families

The expanded HP business printing portfolio also includes new HP OfficeJet Pro and HP LaserJet printers, rounding out the options available to customers.

 In the last decade, HP has created and firmly established the ink in the office category, offering small and medium businesses professional quality ink-based colour printing at up to 50% lower cost per page than lasers. The HP OfficeJet Pro 8000 series features HP Print Forward Design to provide customers productivity with high speeds in a space-saving designs helps preserve office real estate. These new printers also include enhanced manageability and security features, seamless mobile printing.

The HP LaserJet family provides customers with print shop document quality, fast speed and professional black-and-white printing. The new LaserJet products include Original HP Toner cartridges with JetIntelligence technology enabling the industry’s most advanced laser printing platform that offer lean, fast, smart options to help customers accelerate their business.

Reinventing protection with Secure Managed Print Services

Today HP is also introducing HP Secure Managed Print Services (MPS), a new Managed Print Services (MPS) offering focused on security. This enhanced service reflects HP’s defence-in-depth approach to delivering our best in class security management available today. HP Secure MPS provides security experts with the ability to help customers secure their print environment with end to end comprehensive security protection and then maintain security over time to address evolving threats and compliance requirements.

HP Secure MPS advanced protections include:

• Our most secure printers with self-healing capabilities
• Security software to detect threats as well as protect, monitor and manage the printer fleet
• Data encryption to better protect confidential data
• Reporting for regulatory and compliance audits
• Security expertise to co-develop a comprehensive print security plan

HP has also updated HP JetAdvantage Security Manager software, the policy-based printer security compliance solution[x], to enable greater visibility into what firmware updates have been applied across the HP printer fleet. This feature enables customers to see which of their printers are protected by HP’s advanced printer security including: HP Sure Start BIOS protection, whitelisting and run-time intrusion detection. In addition, HP Enterprise printers can now be monitored for malicious activity by the SIEM (Security Information and event monitoring) tool Splunk.