AMERICAN tech giant Hewlett-Packard is setting up a new R&D lab in Singapore that will focus on improving the navigation and design of its printers.
HP is currently looking for a site for its new Inkjet Web Solutions Global Design Center, which is expected to be up and running by early next year, said the company’s executive vice-president for its imaging and printing group, Mr Vyomesh Joshi, in an interview with the Straits Times on Tuesday.
Within the centre – HP’s only such facility outside the United States – its researchers will look for ways to improve the company’s upcoming web-enabled printers, from more intuitive touch-screen menus to allow users to select pictures from online photo galleries, to connecting the printer to networking devices like home wireless routers with fewer clicks.
HP, which has a 46 per cent market share of the global printer market, will also be hiring experts in industrial design, ergonomics, and materials science to improve the look-and-feel of its printers, so they do not look out-of-place in modern designer living rooms, said Mr Joshi, a member of HP’s executive team, who received the Friend of Singapore award from President SR Nathan earlier on Tuesday.
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