Richard Watson (left) Taopix, President of Asia and James Gray, CEO of Taopix (right)
One of the first platforms to give a seamless integration with the HP SmartStream Production Center is the Taopix photo book and gift software platform.
This will be beneficial to HP customers already using Taopix software, or thinking about venturing into the lucrative photo book and gift market.
The software will be unveiled and demonstrated on the company’s stand within the Solutions Showcase at Dscoop in Beijing, China on May 12-13. Following that, visitors to China Print, Beijing May 14-18, will be able to see a demonstration of the integration with the production management system in the HP booth.
The integration between the two pieces of software uses JDF to seamlessly transfer the photo gift production job and its job ticket information to the production management system. This automates the job submission, shortening the production time, reduces manual work and human errors. Once the job is complete, the software receives a status update via JMF, which it relays to the printer.
James Gray, CEO, commented, ‘We have worked closely with HP Indigo for a number of years now. A large portion of our install base run HP Indigo presses so this is excellent news for our customers, especially the many who have rapidly growing volume and require a high quality production management solution.
‘We’re the world’s leading photo gift software platform and as such, we constantly work with our customers, partners and distributors to ensure we add features and enhancements to our software that will be of great benefit to our customers. We’ve invested time working closely with HP to ensure that we all get this right and that the integration is as seamless as possible. We believe the integration with HP SmartStream Production Center will allow a number of our customers to gain efficiencies in production.’
