HP and Shutterfly Announce Record HP Indigo Digital Press Rollout to Accelerate Personalized Gift and Photo Printing Markets
November 12 2020 - 8:00AM
HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) and Shutterfly, the world’s leading online
retailer of personalized products, today announced a landmark
expansion of their strategic relationship to deliver next-level
productivity to supply the growing ecommerce market of photo gifts
and photo products.
Shutterfly is investing in more than 60 new high-performance HP
Indigo Digital Presses to drive higher productivity for its range
of high-quality, photo-based and personalized products including
photo gifts, photo books, school portraits, holiday cards, and home
decor.
The agreement with Shutterfly, the leading US supplier of HP
Indigo digital print, is the largest single customer order to date
for the HP Graphics business. Now underway, the rollout includes
next-generation, high-productivity B2 sized HP Indigo 100K digital
presses, high versatility HP Indigo 12000 digital presses, as well
as significant investment in web-fed photo presses to transform
photo portrait printing to digital.
“Over our 20+ year legacy, Shutterfly has committed to investing
in the best and most innovative technology to fuel our business,
delivering high-quality products to our customers, hosts and
partners,” said Shutterfly Inc.’s chief operating officer Dwayne
Black. “This latest upgrade of our HP Indigo fleet continues that
investment in quality, productivity and innovation, with
significant advancements in speed and automation that help us
deliver even higher quality products to our customers, even faster
at a time when sharing tangible memories is more important than
ever.”
The annual global photo printing and merchandise market is
expected to reach a value of $3.117 billion by the end of
2026, with a CAGR of 8.1% during 2021-2026, compared with USD
1.7960 billion in 2019.1
“Today more than ever before, tangible, personalized experiences
are becoming more precious. Consumers are looking for quick
turnaround, alongside real-to-life photo quality. We at HP Indigo
are proud to be Shutterfly’s provider of choice in making this a
reality,” said Haim Levit, general manager, HP Indigo.
In this latest wave of installations, Shutterfly is investing
across three HP Indigo press generations and formats. Shutterfly
was one of the first customer beta sites for the new 29-inch format
HP Indigo 100K, engineered for high productivity and nonstop
printing while delivering Indigo’s renowned digital offset look and
feel. Shutterfly’s new HP Indigo 12000 presses loaded with a value
pack deliver higher end prints using a wider range of inks and
materials up to 24 pt, including synthetic, metalized and canvas
applications.
The presses will be installed across four manufacturing
facilities in Shakopee, Minnesota; Fort Mill, South Carolina;
Tempe, Arizona; and Plano, Texas over the next 18 months.
To keep production at the highest level, Shutterfly takes
advantage of HP PrintOS, the cloud-based PSP management solution,
to monitor productivity of presses in real-time to keep press
uptime to a maximum.
More information on HP’s award-winning HP Indigo digital presses
is available at www.hp.com/go/Indigo.
About Shutterfly, Inc.
Committed to making all of life’s experiences unforgettable,
Shutterfly Inc., is the leading digital retailer and manufacturing
platform for photography and personalized products.
Shutterfly Inc. operates three divisions: a Consumer division,
Lifetouch, and Shutterfly Business Solutions. The Consumer division
helps customers create the most from life’s moments through its
flagship personalized Shutterfly products; premium offerings in its
Tiny Prints boutique; Snapfish custom photo gifts, as well as
wedding invitations and stationery; and GrooveBook, an iPhone and
Android app and subscription service that prints up to 100 mobile
phone photos in a GrooveBook and mails it out every month.
Lifetouch is the national leader in school photography, built on
the enduring tradition of “Picture Day,” and also serves families
through portrait studios and other partnerships. Shutterfly
Business Solutions delivers enterprise digital printing services
that enable efficient and effective customer engagement through
personalized communications. For more information, please visit
www.shutterflyinc.com.
About HP Inc.
HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) creates technology that makes life better
for everyone, everywhere. Through our product and service portfolio
of personal systems, printers and 3D printing solutions, we
engineer experiences that amaze. More information about HP Inc. is
available at www.hp.com.
Nina Gilbert,
HPnina@hp.comwww.hp.com/go/newsroom |
Graham Day,
HPgraham.day@hp.com |
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1 2020 Photo Printing and Merchandise Market Report by 360
Market updates. August, 2020.
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