HP PrintOS Success Stories for HP Indigo Digital Presses February 16, 2017

Table of contents Topic Page # HP PrintOS Print Beat - short quotes 5 HP PrintOS Print Beat - GLS 6 HP PrintOS Print Beat - Benson 7 HP PrintOS Print Beat - iTek 8 HP PrintOS Print Beat - Prime Group 9 HP PrintOS Print Beat - Proco 10 HP PrintOS Box – short quotes 11 HP PrintOS Box – Univest 12 HP PrintOS Box – F E Burman 13 HP PrintOS Box – Serafi 14 HP PrintOS Substrate Manager - GLS 15 HP PrintOS Media Locator - Benson 16 HP PrintOS Resource Manager – iTek 17 HP PrintOS is the answer 18

HP PrintOS introduction Reinvent print production operations A print production operating system that is cloud-based, open and secure. Accessible anytime and anywhere. Use PrintOS to: Get more out of your HP presses/printers Simplify and automate production Innovate, collaborate and grow

HP PrintOS What customers are saying

PrintOS Print Beat: What customers are saying “PrintOS Print Beat gives you all the answers to most of the questions that you would have – in one place, at one time. It really gives us the luxury of seeing where we're at, how we can get better." Dave Manship, Digital Operations Manager at GLS Companies”.  “PrintOS really is gonna give you a lot of opportunity to pivot and react and for us, we're growing quickly so we want to make sure we're getting the maximum productivity out of these devices. You're getting information real time at that time day-by-day, shift-by-shift, that alone allows for real-time assessment” – Founder and CEO Brian Benson. “We've, tremendously used the data from Print Beat to help us get jobs out faster, see where the bottlenecks are and where we can make improvement” -Erich Rawlins - Production Manager, iTEK “I would definitely recommend HP Print Beat, because you're able to go ahead and look at your entire press fleet, whether you have one press, ten presses, and you can pull up your phone, see the performance of the press in a quick snapshot” -Doug Rembold - Digital Production Manager

PrintOS Print Beat: What customers are saying Print Beat delivers Operational Excellence PROFILE Business Name: GLS Companies Location: Minnesota, US Main applications: GCP Indigo equipment: HP Indigo 12000, 2 X 10000, 7500 “PrintOS Print Beat gives you all the answers to most of the questions that you would have – in one place, at one time. It really gives us the luxury of seeing where we're at, how we can get better." Dave Manship, Digital Operations Manager at GLS Companies”.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_JDuYv-Ueg&t=52s Make smarter, efficient and timely decisions

PrintOS Print Beat: What customers are saying Make smarter, efficient and timely decisions PROFILE Business Name: Benson Location: Atlanta, US Main applications: Decoration, GCP Indigo equipment: HP Indigo 10000, 7900, HP Latex 3000 “PrintOS really is gonna give you a lot of opportunity to pivot and react and for us, we're growing quickly so we want to make sure we're getting the maximum productivity out of these devices. You're getting information real time at that time day-by-day, shift-by-shift, that alone allows for real-time assessment” – Founder and CEO Brian Benson.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYS9SOUiJ54&list=PLmqp1TCU_XvJcqgq8sBjZ6dr1qiIkIXi8 Print Beat delivers Operational Excellence

PrintOS Print Beat: What customers are saying Full transparency and attention PROFILE Business Name: iTEK Location: North Carolina, US Main applications: GCP Indigo equipment: HP Indigo 7900, 10000 “We've, tremendously used the data from Print Beat to help us get jobs out faster, see where the bottlenecks are and where we can make improvement” -Erich Rawlins - Production Manager, iTEK “I would definitely recommend HP Print Beat, because you're able to go ahead and look at your entire press fleet, whether you have one press, ten presses, and you can pull up your phone, see the performance of the press in a quick snapshot” -Doug Rembold - Digital Production Manager, iTEK Print Beat delivers Operational Excellence

PrintOS Print Beat: What customers are saying Continuous operation improvement PROFILE Business Name: Prime Group Printing Location: UK Main applications: GCP Indigo equipment: HP Indigo “Print Beat for me is a, a continual improvement journey. It is around capturing what you're doing and that's just measurable. And those are difficult to capture without spending a lot of time analyzing data. And I'd just rather not do that.  Print Beat just changed all that overnight”. - Adrian Tolley, Operations Director, Prime Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YfI8-tl_Wg&t=143s Print Beat delivers Operational Excellence

PrintOS Print Beat: What customers are saying Print Beat has helped us improve our performance by 40% PROFILE Business Name: Proco Location: UK Main applications: GCP Indigo equipment: HP Indigo 7800, 7000, 7500, 10000 in two sites “The PrintOS Print Beat app has helped us improve our efficiency. It’s helped engage us with our staff and given us specific metrics that we’ve used to improve our performance. In some cases we’ve improved our performance by up to 40% from the metrics we’ve been given”.  – Graeme Parry, Production Director | ProCo Proco published a newsletter to all their customers, presenting PrintOS Print Beat as an advantage in their offering to their customers Print Beat delivers Operational Excellence

PrintOS Box: What customers are saying “We use PrintOS box to get files from our customers, they are submitting files with print instructions using the easy submit portal. We use Box to communicate with our customers, transfer files internally, as well as preflight and impose jobs before printing, Box allows us to get files to Press in the most efficient way. We have also streamlined jobs arriving from Areal Media storefront directly to Box, so it basically simplifies the way we receive and manage centrally incoming files”. - Aleksey Safronov, Prepress Manager at Univest PrePress “Last year we ran a particular project where we needed to transfer high number of very large PDF files that included Mosaic in a very short time, we managed to do that very efficiently using PrintOS Box. We transferred 220 unique Mosaic PDF files totaling over 355GB, all files were checked  and sent to our HP Indigo 10,000 all without ever hitting our server locally”. -Roger White, Creative & Technical Lead at F.E Burman “We have been able to reduce preparation time from 40 mins to 5 mins” Toni explained. “Time to print is critical as jobs are normally urgent and this is a significant saving. In addition handling cost per job are reduced as the same people can handle more jobs increasing capacity”. – Toni Estadella, Prepress Manager at Serafi

PrintOS Box: What customers are saying Easy Submit, communications and managing files PROFILE Business Name: Univest PrePress Number of employees: 160 Location: Ukraine Main applications: GCP Indigo equipment: HP Indigo 5500 “We use PrintOS box to get files from our customers, they are submitting files with print instructions using the easy submit portal. We use Box to communicate with our customers, transfer files internally, as well as preflight and impose jobs before printing, Box allows us to get files to Press in the most efficient way. We have also streamlined jobs arriving from Areal Media storefront directly to Box, so it basically simplifies the way we receive and manage centrally incoming files”. - Aleksey Safronov, Prepress Manager at Univest PrePress Box delivers results

PrintOS Box: What customers are saying Automation PROFILE Business Name: F B Burman Number of employees: 40 Location: UK Main applications: GCP Indigo equipment: HP Indigo 7000, HP Indigo 7600, HP Indigo 10000 “Last year we ran a particular project where we needed to transfer high number of very large PDF files that included Mosaic in a very short time, we managed to do that very efficiently using PrintOS Box. We transferred 220 unique Mosaic PDF files totaling over 355GB, all files were checked  and sent to our HP Indigo 10,000 all without ever hitting our server locally”. -Roger White, Creative & Technical Lead at F.E Burman Box delivers results

PrintOS Box: What customers are saying More jobs in less time PROFILE Business Name: Serafi Number of employees: 18 Location: Barcelona, Spain Main applications: GCP Indigo equipment: HP Indigo 7500, HP Indigo 7600, HP Indigo 10000 “We have been able to reduce preparation time from 40 mins to 5 mins” Toni explained. “Time to print is critical as jobs are normally urgent and this is a significant saving. In addition handling cost per job are reduced as the same people can handle more jobs increasing capacity”. – Toni Estadella, Prepress Manager at Serafi Box delivers results

PrintOS Substrate Manager: What customers are saying Consistent quality results with minimal effort PROFILE Business Name: GLS Companies Location: Minnesota, US Main applications: GCP Indigo equipment: HP Indigo 12000, 2 X 10000, 7500 “Since starting to work with PrintOS Substrate Manager, we’ve found it easier to run jobs on all paper types across multiple presses and get consistent, high quality results, quickly and with minimal effort.” - Larry Knutson, Indigo Operator, GLS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_JDuYv-Ueg&t=52s Maintain consistency over time, presses and sites * Such as color profiles, substrates characteristics, job ticket settings and more

PrintOS Media Locator: What customers are saying Unlimited access to HP Certified media PROFILE Business Name: Benson Location: Atlanta, US Main applications: Decoration, GCP Indigo equipment: HP Indigo 10000, 7900, HP Latex 3000 “I do use the media locator a lot because I have a lot of crazy ideas. So I wanna kind of see like what's out there and what I can do. As simple as the media locator sounds, it's probably been one of the best things that we've been able to do” – Founder and CEO Brian Benson.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYS9SOUiJ54&list=PLmqp1TCU_XvJcqgq8sBjZ6dr1qiIkIXi8 Media Locator delivers fast and accurate media results

PrintOS Resource Manager: What customers are saying Automatic asset back-up on the cloud PROFILE Business Name: iTEK Location: North Carolina, US Main applications: GCP Indigo equipment: HP Indigo 7900, 10000 “The HP PrintOS Resource Manager is fairly new. It's great to be able to click on one site and see every aspect of your DFE or your ticket templates, your look up tables, your substrates, all at a glance just by using one application. to be able to automatically have the back-up to the cloud is a tremendous help to us” -Doug Rembold - Digital Production Manager Resource Manager for peace of mind

PrintOS is the answer A print production operating system designed for PSPs Get more from your presses, simplify print production and innovate Exchange files, optimized for print, including ability to easily prepare files Gain insights to improve the performance of your press Manage job submission, pre-press and flow across the production floor Manage substrate properties for consistent color across presses/sites Centrally manage and back up all devices Quickly find answers to technical questions Easily find certified substrates for any job Compose sophisticated variable data jobs Automate job imposition for consistent output Gain insights from virtually anywhere and anytime

hp.com/go/printos