HEWLETT-PACKARD Inc. (HP) is offering new imaging and printing solutions to help businesses streamline and integrate paper-intensive processes as it expands its 25-year relationship with Canon Inc.

HP will be offering its products, services and solutions to enterprises to transform business processes and drive down costs by optimizing the company’s imaging and printing infrastructure.

“HP always strives to help customers evaluate the importance of imaging and printing technology as a strategic asset, while helping them manage printable content,” said Jenny Sotto-Siquioco, country general manager for imaging and printing group (IPG) at HP Philippines. “As businesses convert their systems from paper-based to digital environments, it is important that they leverage on a partnership with HP that knows how to deliver breakthrough imaging and printing with technological know-how.”

For this purpose, HP created a new managed enterprise solutions global business unit to help customers drive down costs and improve productivity. The organization is structured to streamline HP’s approach to the market and ensure direct customers receive the most comprehensive suite of customizable services, software and solutions integrated with HP’s complete portfolio of intelligent devices—including products from Canon.

HP and Canon have expanded their alliance to give HP Managed Print Services customers access to the industry’s broadest portfolio of single and multifunction devices.

To complement this move, HP also rolled out the largest ever workflow solutions that includes new printing products designed to improve efficiencies and accelerate business results.

“HP Managed Print Services is a valuable tool as it enabled us to allocate printing budget for each department accurately; something that we were unable to do before,” said Dannarjaya Sri, business systems head at PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk. “We decreased the number of printers that we own by 60 percent from the original 550 units, dropped paper consumption by 50 percent and saved 30 percent of printing cost in total.”