Mike Feldman
VP, IPG Global Enterprise Business

Greetings! My worldwide travels on behalf of HP’s enterprise imaging and printing business continue. Today, I’m in the port city of Shanghai – the largest city in the People’s Republic of China, on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta.

After a successful HP press and channel event last week in Budapest, I traveled from Budapest to Shanghai (didn’t the Mongol army of Genghis Kahn make a similar trip in about 1220?) Luckily, I’ve been able to rely on modern transportation and comfortably arrived here for our pan-Asia Pacific Enterprise Advisory Council and press event.

The advisory council brought together customers from Australia, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, and Singapore. Our enterprise customers gave us great feedback at the two-day meeting and reinforced that HP is on the right track with our “Print 2.0 Alternative Thinking About Printing” strategy. They also agreed with their peers from the Americas and Europe that HP’s environmental stewardship – and our work to support their commitment to the environment -- while it has always been important, is increasingly timely and topical. Many customers are taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint by setting their devices to duplex printing, sleep mode in low use times, and are recycling their toner and ink supplies. This was great to see. Everything helps. The customers also reinforced that our solutions, services, and new MFPs are hitting the mark, but they want to see even further leverage with the rest of HP. Good feedback indeed.

By the time this blog entry gets posted, we’ll have already kicked-off our press event here in Shanghai. We are expecting 125 members of the press to join us for a two day event where we will unveil the solutions we introduced last week in Budapest. We are excited to host the press and communicate our continued progress on Print 2.0.

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