Do You Own an HP Printer? Learn How to Print Documents Securely and Easily – Part 2
Following up on our previous post about how to secure your documents while printing in your HP printer, this post offers information on some of the major threats that most companies face when it comes to exposing sensitive information and how to protect your information from getting stolen, as published by ENX magazine. Note: Although this article is geared towards HP printer users, the guidelines can be followed by users of other printer brands as well, and are applicable for both laser and inkjet printer users. Before we begin let’s do a quick overview of some of the major threats most companies face when it comes to printer document security: actual printer documents getting stolen from the printer itself, the stealing of a printer hard disk, unprotected printers run the risk of having passwords stolen and print jobs re-routed, unsecured networks can be hacked and any potential hacker can send fax and e-mail via your printer to anyone globally and the threat of a “network sniffer” stealing your information when it is transmitting from your PC to your printer. To protect the print environment, a company’s strategy must contain methods that will include printing and imaging products, the network, and [...]
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Do You Own an HP Printer? Learn How to Print Documents Securely and Easily – Part 1
Securing your documents while printing in your HP printer or any printer is important to make sure your confidential documents remain private from prying eyes. This is especially important if your printer is shared across several departments or used by many people. There are many ways to secure your printing including setting up password-protection, setting up firewalls, using a secure WIFI network and more. However here are a few simple steps offered by ENX Magazine, you can implement immediately to print a document securely in your HP printer: How to securely print a document using an HP printer: 1. Go to file menu and click “Print” 2. Navigate to “Properties” tab and then click on the “Destination” tab 3. Under “Destination” features, click on “Job Retention” and then go to “Options” 4. Under “Job Retention Mode”, go to “Private Job” 5. Enter your name, give a name to your print job, and then enter your unique 4 digit pin. 6. Go to your printer, select job and enter your unique pin code. HP and Microsoft have also identified a set of major threats that most people face when it comes to having their documents exposed and stolen. HP has identified [...]
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HP Officejet Pro X is Recognized as Guinness World Records Speediest Printer
Exciting stuff is happening at HP. Just recently, HP announced the release of its fastest printer yet – The HP Officejet Pro X. How fast is it? Let’s just say it’s REALLY fast. If you want numbers, it can crank out 70 pages per minute (PPM) in black and white – yes that’s 70 pages in just ONE minute! No wonder it was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s fastest printer – a record that will have laser printer enthusiasts surprised. In a laser competitive market, how does this latest inkjet compare? Here’s what PCWorld has to say: This $799 machine is nothing like the $400 small-office inkjet MFPs we’ve lauded in the past, let alone the sub-$100 beaters that drink pricey ink. The Officejet Pro X576dw is faster than any color laser we’ve tested—that’s its competition, not regular inkjets. Its consumables are supercheap; and its output quality is just fine, thank you. This is an inkjet that deserves respect from color lasers, including those from its own company. So there you have it. Finally – an inkjet printer that brings real competition to the laser printer market. And it’s not just speed we’re talking about here. According [...]
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Ink and Toner News: HP’s Plan for Growth
In a constant effort to grow, the executives at HP know that the company has to slowly but steadily move away from its PC-centered market and into other avenues and money-making channels. With all the BPO’s (Business Process Outsourcing) units mushrooming across the globe HP has joined the bandwagon and come up with its own solution. Named AutoFlow, HP’s solution to streamline business processes for companies is offered under the umbrella of Hewlett Packard’s Enterprise Service division. According to Nasdaq this is what HP AutoFlow is about and how it can help your business: H-P AutoFlow will automate financial, accounting and certain other business processes to facilitate smooth functioning. The company is quite confident that the solution will be competent on any Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform and can even help the system to organize workflow in a better way. An ERP platform is a business management solution that streamlines business processes through a system of integrated applications. H-P has combined its rich BPO experience and features of the Omniflow workflow solution developed by Newgen Software Technologies, a provider of business process management (BPM) and enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. AutoFlow is also armed with H-P’s Document Processing Service, which [...]
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Ink and Toner News: Major Printer Brands Join EPEAT’s Registry to Showcase Greener Electronics
Top printer manufacturers like Epson, Canon, Xerox, Dell, Lexmark and Ricoh have recently added their printers and copiers to EPEAT’s green electronics registry. Samsung, Hewlett-Packard and Konica Minolta are not far behind and are in the process of getting their products registered as well. If you haven’t heard of EPEAT, here’s a quick overview: Launched in the year 2006, EPEAT is a registry that includes products from more than 50 manufacturers all across the globe. The company is spearheaded as a partnership between various sectors including businesses, NGOs, other stakeholders and also has some government intervention. Many consumers are now getting increasingly aware of what products they put their money into. Manufacturers who deliver green products that are free from toxic materials are sure to get a thumbs up by consumers, and companies are more than likely going to see a boost in their sales numbers as well. With EPEAT recently opening up its registry to include more than just computers, and have imaging equipment like printers, copiers, scanners and all-in-one machines that pass environmental tests on its registry, manufacturers didn’t take long to join in. And the criteria for getting added to the registry isn’t that simple as well [...]
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