An Australian print, technology, and design business has become the first in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region to deploy HP's PrintOS Print Beat across all three printing platforms (Indigo, Scitex and Latex).
Print Beat, which was launched in 2016, will be used by Sydney-based Dashing Group across HP’s large format, industrial and Indigo digital print platforms.
It will operate across four HP Latex production printers, two HP Scitex industrial presses, and three HP Indigo sheet-fed digital presses.
PrintOS was launched as a way of helping print service providers of all sizes to simplify production and get the most out of their HP presses and printers.
As a provider of large and small format prints for Australia’s biggest retail brands, Dashing Group needed a solution to manage its high print volumes by simplifying and automating the production process.
Having chosen HP as its primary supplier of large format and digital presses, the decision to implement PrintOS was straightforward.
COO Paul Wilcockson said it would be helpful to have one platform to help automate print production and manage any number of jobs, from submission to delivery.
For Dashing Group, the standout feature of HP’s PrintOS system is the ability to generate real-time data on press performance through PrintOS Print Beat.
As one of 13 PrintOS applications, Print Beat offers both historical and near-real-time data on volume, utilisation and maintenance to track printer and site performance.
The PrintOS Print Beat dashboard can also be displayed onscreen, beside each printer, to give operators a near-live feed on how each device is performing and how it is tracking against current targets and past performance.
