Continuing their collaboration, HP and SA International (SAi), have announced a new interface for large format print providers to operate the HP WallArt 3.0 custom wallcovering application.
Gudrun Bonte, product director at Sai, says, “The SAi Flexi interface delivers fast, easy workflow management with the assurance of smooth, high-speed RIPing for WallArt users. The interface is the latest solution of our continued collaboration with HP to provide outstanding software for integration with its large-format printers.”
HP says that WallArt 3.0 helps large format print providers with HP latex printers, wallcovering manufacturers, and designers to work more closely with interior decoration stores and ecommerce sites. Printers can produce wallpaper designs from any location via the cloud-based HP WallArt application. Customers and designers can place images and patterns to create custom wallcoverings that accommodate doors, windows and other architectural features of individual rooms. The designers upload their work to the Cloud from where large format print providers download PDF files for printing on their printers. WallArt 3.0 comes free of charge for HP Latex printer owners.
SAi says its Flexi interface enhances job processing and manageability. After uploading a new wallcovering design, large format print providers log on to the HP WallArt dashboard where they review and download jobs for printing. SAi says the new interface simplifies this process, with jobs now displayed with a preview in the Production Manager tool, a dashboard where the operator manages the queue and output devicess, checks job status, and selects the order of files for printing. The new interface uses JDF workflow.
