HP launches wireless printing

Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, in her first major product launch event,

took the wraps of a series of new printers, imaging products and services that

feature innovative Internet capabilities, including a document router that

enables wireless printing and a handheld organizer that can transmit color

images to a printer. The company also unveiled alliances with FedEx and others

to offer printing services using the Internet.

Future printers will have to far beyond their traditional capabilities and

offer new functions to meet the needs of the new Internet-based economy, Fiorina

said. "Printers will be judged by the services they deliver, not just by

how fast they print." She added that today's $40 billion printer market will

become a $100 billion industry by 2004, including printers for new Web

appliances and services.