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HP's fiscal 2014 net revenue of $111.5 billion was down 1 percent from the prior-year period and flat on a constant currency basis. "There's still a lot left to do, but our efforts to date, combined with the separation we announced in October, sets the stage for accelerated progress in FY15 and beyond," said Meg Whitman, chairman, president and CEO, HP.
Chris Morgan, a former senior vice president at HP has joined 3-D printing and additive manufacturing provider Stratasys Ltd. as its new senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Morgan is now responsible for Stratasys’ global marketing activities, including developing strategy and building a global team that will support the company’s worldwide expansion and rapid growth.
Canon and HP's wide-format devices have won Pick and Outstanding Achievement Awards from Buyers Laboratory (BLI). Among the winning devices selected in Canon U.S.A.'s wide-format lineup are imagePROGRAF iPF680/685, imagePROGRAF iPF780/785 and imagePROGRAF iPF785 MFP M40 printers. HP's winning devices include the HP Designjet Z5400 PostScript ePrinter and HP Rear Stacker Design.
Expanding its portfolio, Orlando, FL-based SunDance Marketing Solutions has installed an HP Latex 3000 industrial printer, purchased at GRAPH EXPO 14. SunDance is a longtime HP Indigo customer, but many factors influenced its decision to purchase the HP Latex 3000, including the printer's ability to print on a broad range of substrates with industry-leading quality.
At the ReproMAX 30th anniversary conference recently held in Las Vegas, Capital Imaging of Lansing, MI, and Beeline and Blue of Des Moines, IA, were selected as Partners of the Year; and HP was named Vendor of the Year.
Adding to its growing collection of substrates for HP Indigo 100000 digital presses, GPA has introduced Ultra Print Coated C1S and C2S Boards, that have a specially engineered surface that provides an ideal backdrop for vivid colors. These boards can also be used in a wide variety of industries, from cosmetics to publishing.
PALO ALTO, CA—HP introduced its vision for the future of computing and 3-D printing by unveiling its new Blended Reality ecosystem. Designed to break down the barriers between the digital and physical worlds, the ecosystem is underpinned by two key advancements:
Designed to break down the barriers between the digital and physical worlds, HP's new Blended Reality ecosystem is underpinned by two key advancements—HP Multi Jet Fusion 3-D printing technology, and Sprout by HP, an Immersive Computing platform. "HP Multi Jet Fusion is designed to transform manufacturing across industries by delivering on the full potential of 3-D printing with better quality, increased productivity, and break-through economics," said Stephen Nigro, senior vice president, Inkjet and Graphic Solutions, HP.
Diet Coke just went and individualized 2 million bottle designs.
Coca-Coca Israel created the campaign, with help from Gefen Team, Q Digital and HP Indigo (using an HP Indigo WS6000p digital press). For the Diet Coke project, a special algorithm led to a unique design technique that allowed millions of designs to be completely auto-generated.
The resulting product conveys to "to Diet Coke lovers that they are extraordinary by creating unique one-of-a-kind extraordinary bottles," said Alon Zamir, vice president of marketing for Coca-Cola Israel.
Numberphile, a YouTube channel dedicated to videos about numbers, partnered with HP Specialty Printing Systems OEM customer HSA Systems to print one million digits of the mathematical constant Pi on a single piece of paper. This project has already been rated as a world record by an independent mathematical professor, and its official application for the "Guinness Book of World Records" has been submitted.