HP is convinced that locked inside smart phones, tablets, and other web-connected devices are billions of pages yearning to be printed—and it wants to be the company that hands the owners of these pages the keys to hard-copy output anywhere, anytime in the physical world. On September 20, HP's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) showcased its latest solutions for liberating personal and business printing at an "innovation summit" for a large crowd of journalists and analysts in New York City.

Also taking part were representatives of some of HP's partners in the endeavor, including Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang and Ivanka Trump of The Trump Organization. The program, which featured 10 product introductions billed by HP as "industry firsts," covered the company's implementations of "cloud" printing for consumers, small and medium businesses, enterprises, and graphic service providers.

Because "graphics" in the context of the summit meant CAD and photo printing, little was said about HP's production printing systems, and the company's line of Indigo digital presses wasn't mentioned except in response to questions about its absence from the program. The agenda did include updates on HP's growing enterprise business, which now supports about 2,700 customers worldwide with Exstream content management software and other HP solutions for document automation.