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By Corey Smith

Tristam Wallace, at the Document Imaging Blog, had a very interesting post on SharePoint and Document Imaging. I think that one of the most common misconceptions is that if you have SharePoint in your office that you have a fully featured document imaging system.

SharePoint can certainly help increase your productivity through collaboration and document storage, but if you have a lot of unstructured data (documents that have been scanned), you probably need to look at integrating your document imaging system (capture/scanning or storage) with SharePoint to help your employees increase their document management productivity.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 13, 2008 - PTA and HP today announced one of the largest nationwide movie night events ever created for schools.

With more than 3,700 schools participating, “PTA Movie Night Live” is the first nationally coordinated event where families in local communities across the country are coming together to enjoy a free showing of DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda,” only days after the film’s DVD release.

ATLANTA, Nov. 13, 2008 -- UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced it is deploying a new combination scanner and paperless printing device from HP that will print millions of sorting labels directly on packages, helping the world’s largest delivery company reduce operational costs while slashing its consumption of paper.

“Leveraging technology innovation is critical in today’s tough, competitive economy,” said Dave Barnes, senior vice president and CIO of UPS. “The new HP handheld device means increased efficiency and effectiveness at a lower cost, with less waste. This is a perfect example of how technology helps to drive business solutions at UPS.”

From BLI

November 11, 2008 - In 1971, Bill Hewlett, co-founder of HP, said, “The deepening concern for preservation of the environment involves the whole basic question of man on this earth: How may the earth’s resources be preserved?” From recycling computer printouts and punch cards in 1971, to creating a hardware recycling program in 1987 and initiating the HP Planet Partners program in 1991 to reclaim and recycle used HP print cartridges, processing them to recover plastics and metals for new products and diverting millions of tons of waste from landfills, HP has been involved in the environmental movement for decades.

By utilizing DocuWare, Bozeman Deaconess Hospital has saved $20,000 a month! Patient care has improved significantly and wait times have been reduced because information is readily available to both patients and staff. DocuWare is being used to manage outpatient lab records across a multi-site environment, collect payments from insurance companies faster, as well as store radiology scripts, insurance cards and signed release forms.

Bozeman Deaconess Hospital’s primary objective is providing quality healthcare to individuals and their families. The hospital is an 86-bed, full service, not-for-profit hospital located in Bozeman, Montana, serving 85,000 people in a 90 mile radius and drawing additional patients from surrounding counties.

As the medical needs of the community grew, the hospital expanded its services to allow patients to have lab work done in any one of three locations. The pressing need for a better way to manage patient records and laboratory results across a multi-site system caused the hospital to investigate implementing an electronic document management system not only for the laboratory, but for other areas of the hospital as well.

CHICAGO, November 4, 2008—HP today announced that several new solutions from its Graphics Solutions Business (GSB) were honored in the 2008 Must See ’Ems awards program. Two newly launched HP GSB solutions were named Must See ’Ems products and one solution earned the program’s Future Print recognition. In addition, an HP digital press was named an Encore Still Worth-A-Look.

By Corey Smith

With the financial challenges of current market conditions, being green can provide your organization with much needed fiscal relief. Being green can help you to save money.

There are more factors in being green in printing than you might think.

eWeek has published an interesting article on this very topic.

CHICAGO, Oct. 27, 2008 - Today at Graph Expo, HP announced a new relationship with U.K.-based Timsons Ltd., the world’s largest book press manufacturer, to develop a digital inkjet system for short- and medium-run book production.

HP also introduced a range of innovative graphic arts solutions from its Indigo, Large-Format Printing and Specialty Printing Systems divisions.

HP and Timsons are combining HP’s market-leading capabilities in inkjet print technology and IT infrastructure with Timsons’ experience in high-volume, high-performance materials handling for a new solution designed to take digital book production beyond niche applications to mainstream production.

NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2008 - HP today announced the extension of its collaboration with Magnum Photos, one of the world’s most esteemed cooperatives of professional photographers, and, for the first time in North America, showcased the HP Designjet Z3200 Photo Printer, which lets creative professionals and print service providers produce gallery-quality black-and-white and color prints.

In booth 136 at PhotoPlus Expo 2008, HP will feature its comprehensive portfolio of digital printing solutions designed to help creative professionals explore new business opportunities – from fine art and exhibition prints to proofing and specialty printing.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 22, 2008 - HP today announced that it is working with healthcare providers across the globe to improve their operational and business processes through the HP Digital Hospital Solution.

The HP Digital Hospital Solution is an integrated set of technologies and services from HP and its partners that allows healthcare providers to deliver better service to patients by aligning technology with business and patient priorities.