Case Study: HP Inc achieves faster, scalable PDF print production with Hybrid Software Helix Mako

HP Inc boosts PDF workflow productivity by 33% with Hybrid Software Helix

HP Inc faced significant challenges while developing HP Site Flow, a manufacturing execution system for its digital presses. The personalized printing market was growing, and HP needed a reliable solution to process and normalize a wide variety of PDF files, print large files at speed, and automatically scale to handle rapidly changing order volumes. Their initial open source and proprietary software solutions were unable to meet these demands, creating bottlenecks in production.

Hybrid Software Helix provided its Mako SDK, which was integrated into HP Site Flow to analyze, streamline, and optimize PDFs for printing. The solution drastically improved memory usage and CPU performance, reducing some processing times from hours to minutes. Mako now handles 90% of the PDF files in the workflow, increasing the proportion of jobs that can be processed at full engine speed and enabling a 33% productivity increase for color jobs through Enhanced Productivity Mode. The collaboration with Hybrid Software Helix resulted in a full-featured system that greatly increased productivity and profitability for its users.

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