HP Inc.’s print service providers (PSPs) are mobilizing industrial
facilities worldwide to deliver print products and help in the
global effort to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Many PSPs are
working with limited staff to adhere to health regulations, while
retooling production lines to support the effort.
“We greatly appreciate our print partners and their employees
for their unrelenting dedication and are pleased we can also play a
part in supporting the huge effort taking place,” said Santi
Morera, general manager and global head of HP’s Graphics Solutions
Business.
Important supplies and healthcare needs
Nosco of Illinois, a subsidiary of Holden Industries, Inc, a
supplier of digital print solutions for folding cartons, labels and
flexible packaging focused heavily on pharma and healthcare, is
using multiple HP Indigo digital label press equipment 24/7 to
produce packaging testing kits, Drug products, syringes for
hospitals, face masks, and hand sanitizer during the current crisis
with the virus. Millions of labels have already been produced and
production will continue to support the needs of the pharma and
healthcare market.
Custom Label of California is a supplier with a designated
“essential business” status producing products for healthcare, food
and more. As a result of a spike in orders, HP has shipped
emergency ink supplies the same day to the site to ensure no
disruption in production. “One of the largest increases in
incremental volume is for packaging for ready-to-eat food due to
the shift from dining out to making food at home,” said Lars
Ho-Tseung, President and CEO, Custom Label. “Volume is also
increasing for labels and packaging for over-the-counter drug
products for flu symptoms.”
Duggal Visual Solutions, a New York City commercial print
service provider, has also teamed up with Kings County Distillery,
a Brooklyn Navy Yard neighbor that has converted its efforts to
produce hand sanitizer. The two companies are producing, bottling
and labeling the products that are in short supply in the US.
Duggal is printing the paper-based labels on its sheetfed HP Indigo
12000 presses.
“Neighbors are helping neighbors, taking the tools you have to
partner and create immediate solutions,” said Marc Lovci, vice
president at Duggal. “Kings reached out at to our Indigo department
to create the labels including die cutting and adhesive.”
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In China, Foresee Images Technology of
Shanghai, printed labels for medical equipment, such as sterilized
wet wipes. The customer required labels in same-day
turnaround, within 6 hours, for a print job that typically requires
a week to complete. To ensure protective measures were also in
place, the printer had to disinfect the premise and provide
shielded gear for staff who were quickly resourced to complete the
production of uncontaminated labels.
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Signage for testing centers, hospitals and
supermarkets
Kirkwood Printing of Wilmington, MA, also mobilized for
overnight delivery of outdoor signage printed for drive-thru
testing centers set up by a locally headquartered national
pharmacy. The signage, produced on HP Latex R2000 printers, helps
direct people around the area. In addition, point of purchase
posters are being printed on HP Indigo digital presses for many
retailers to advise of store closings. “Shortly after this crisis
began, we began diverting resources to COVID-19 related needs,
providing materials as fast as possible for signage to inform the
public,” said Mark Nappa, chief sales officer of Kirkwood.
As a leading printing company in China, Beijing Indigo Digital
Printing printed virus prevention informational signage and
materials for National Health Commission and Beijing National
Health Commission. HP Indigo digital printing enabled printing and
supply of the materials in fast turnaround for sending materials to
front-line hospitals quickly.
Ironmark of Maryland is supporting with COVID-19 related signage
for nine different health care systems at over 150
locations. The new signage warns of health precautions,
designates areas at hospitals including triage and repurposed space
with facilities for patient care services.
Carly Press of the UK identified the need to print free stickers
for local residents to put up outside their homes, in order to
indicate they are in self isolation. Utilizing their HP latex 360
printer and some spare press capacity, Carly Press was able to
print clear, bright stickers, and are experiencing growing demand
for from their local area to nationally across the UK.
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Protective gear for those on the front
lines
Dispackaging in Spain is using its HP Latex R series printers to
produce face shields to help cope with the lack of protection for
health service workers. Production of the low-cost masks has
reached 50,000 units a week.
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Duggal Visual Solutions has retooled its production facility to
produce face shields for medical staff and first responders in
New York City. “Over the past week, we assembled a task force to
address the shortage in health care safety equipment and
immediately saw we could quickly produce face shields. Over 150
volunteers are coming to work to make this life-saving
equipment, producing 120,000 units in the first
week, with a total order of 360,000 units,” said Marc Lovci,
vice president at Duggal. Duggal Visual Solutions occupies
250,000 square feet of production space, in five buildings within
the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard. Labels are printed in the
Indigo Digital Press division.
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Sabaté, a specialized point of sale creator from
Spain, has used HP Latex technology to produce protective
separation screens and floor signs in grocery stores. The
protective separation screens for counters create a barrier between
customers, workers and product (in this case, food). The counters
are made of polycarbonate and HP Latex printed ultra-transparent
vinyl. The floor vinyl is self-adhesive, and it’s used to limit
passage of people and keep the safety distance.
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Superior Packaging & Finishing of Braintree, MA is using HP
Indigo 12000 presses to create thousands of face masks to donate to
local hospitals and businesses to limit the potential for exposure
faced by essential, non-medical employees. "My heart goes out to
all the doctors, nurses, and first responders putting their health
on the line for all of us. We want to do everything we can to make
sure they have the tools to stay safe so that they can continue to
do their jobs," said Donny Charlebois, president and founder.
Family activities to keep spirits high
Smartphoto and Cartamundi in Belgium, identified two family
groups that love each other’s company, kids and their grandparents,
forced to spend time apart during the outbreak. An initiative
called “ik denk aan jou – kaartspel” (translated as “I’m
thinking about you - card deck”) encourages children to design
playing cards by drawing or uploading pictures for their
grandparents so that when the lockdown has passed the family can
play together again.
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40,000 “Thank yous” – Personalized airline boarding
passes for medical workers
To thank nurses and doctors who were on the frontline in Wuhan
hospitals for more than two months, boarding passes home were
personalized with special messages for a group of over 40,000
doctors and nurses who selflessly risked their lives in the call of
duty to save countless lives.
China’s Jiangsu Baicheng printed the unique
boarding passes using their HP Indigo 12000HD to reinforce their
gratitude for their efforts and hard work during a highly tense
environment. They were given only 24 hours to complete the job to
catch the flights. They completed it in 16 hours!
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
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