HP ePrint news goes local

HP was smart enough to realise that once you’ve designed printers with network interfaces and enough processing power to run a touchscreen control panel, it doesn’t take all that much to add network based services.

For example, the ePrint models can print documents sent to them by email, and download and print daily news summaries and other content. The problem was that the initial news source was American.

HP has now added Australian news and headlines through Yahoo!7 Daily Brief.

"With this Yahoo!7 application, we are providing Australian consumers and businesses a fast and easy way to access up-to-date information that is locally relevant to our market," said Richard Bailey, vice president of HP South Pacific’s imaging and printing group.

"Not only is the content Australian specific, but users can access the information anywhere, anytime using HP web connected printing technology," he added.

Discussions are underway with other unspecified local content providers, company officials said.