By DPS Magazine Staff
Following the recent Dscoop Edge Rockies event that took place in CO this March, DPS Magazine sat down with HP executive, Meny Gantz, who serves as the VP of product strategy and business development for HP Indigo.
DPS: Please discuss your background and role at HP.
Gantz: I lead the product, strategy and business development for HP Indigo. I’ve been at the company for nearly one and a half years. Previous to this role, I held CMO and VP product and marketing positions at high-tech companies focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductors for more than 20 years.
I have a BSc in Mechanical Engineering, MSc in ElectrOptics and an MBA with a marketing specialty.
I truly enjoy the print industry, it’s unique. At the end of the day, print touches everyone and evokes real emotions. That’s exactly what our customers focus on when working with brands. Thanks to our close relationships with customers, we’re able to deeply understand their needs, business goals, and challenges, and deliver products that help them succeed.
This connection brings a win-win situation for both our customers and HP.
DPS: That connection is what brings us to this interview. Part of this winning collaboration with customers is groups like Dscoop. could you share your thoughts on the organization and the recent event?
Gantz: During the year we continuously work in collaboration with our customers. The Dscoop event marks a major touch point in this journey. We work on delivering our innovations through the year while in Dscoop it is a great opportunity to reveal these innovations to the Dscoop community.
This year, we delivered new products to the market, including the HP Indigo 7K+, the next evolution of HP Indigo’s most successful A3 commercial digital platform, which really showcased our ability to drive additional innovation for the general commercial printing market. We announced this new press following a highly successful beta period with customers across North America and Europe, the results have been outstanding. The HP Indigo 7K+ delivered on its promise to significantly improve operational simplicity and press economics.
A major contributor to the improved economics is the new Eco Print Mode, a fourcolor print mode using a thinner ink layer that enables lower running costs while maintaining high print quality. After extensive testing, customers reported that 40% to 50% of their jobs were suitable for Eco Mode, directly contributing to the customer’s increased competitiveness and profitability.
HP also introduced the HP Indigo 120K Value Pack, enabling HP Indigo 100K customers to upgrade their press productivity and efficiency.
We had the opportunity to celebrate the 100th installation of the HP Indigo 200K, which highlights global momentum in digital flexible packaging and labels.
DPS: Can you talk about how your background in mechanical engineering and business influences the way you lead marketing and product strategy at HP?
Gantz: HP Indigo develops presses that customers know they can rely on for predictable production and sellable outputs.
When I first joined HP, I remember walking into the labs and feeling immediately connected to the technology. The environment felt familiar. I came from the semiconductor world, which is very complex. Discovering HP Indigo’s technology and the print industry was incredibly exciting for me. I didn’t know what to expect—but when I saw HP Indigo, I was truly amazed. I thought, “Wow, this is something really special.
The quality the products provide, the color vividness, the speed, the efficiency. The press has a lot of mechanical parts, advanced SW and algorithms and electro-optic mechanisms, additional innovative technologies and everything is working in perfect synchronization. Delivering best products that meet our customer needs.
From an engineering perspective, the technology is truly remarkable. From marketing perspective, it’s about bringing that advanced HP Indigo technology to life for our customers.
DPS: We’ve noticed HP pushing digital print as a primary, industrial-scale alternative to analog. How does the HP Indigo 120K help change the breakeven conversation for high-volume commercial work?
Gantz: For years, print marketing emphasized speed specs and theoretical capacity. Today, customers are focused on something more practical: reliable, sellable output they can count on week after week, with costs and predictability that support real commitments and growth. It’s a higher bar – and the right one.
In commercial printing, the B2 segment remains the area where customers are most focused on nonstop performance, because profitability on the production floor depends on consistent throughput and predictable results.
The recent mage deal with Shutterfly which we announced at Dscoop echoes exactly this.
At Dscoop, HP addressed this reality with the introduction of the HP Indigo 120K Value Pack, an offering designed to help existing customers increase productivity, efficiency, and press stability without the disruption of replacing their equipment. This reflects a strong customer-centric and customer outcomedriven approach: rather than pursuing full press replacements, many customers are looking for a practical path to improved performance and stronger economics from the assets they already have.
We are committed to continuous improvement for our customers’ growth. Through strong relationships and trust, our focus is on consistently delivering value that helps their business succeed.
DPS: How is HP leveraging AI to optimize digital print workflows, particularly when it comes to reducing waste and improving customization for global brands?
Gantz: At HP Indigo, we’ve made a deliberate shift toward becoming an AI first company, embedding artificial intelligence across the solutions and value chain.
For customers and partners, that matters for one reason: practical value. AI should help teams run more production with optimized workforce, increased efficiency, fewer errors, better ease of use and faster recovery. In other words, AI that works for you on your production floor.
Particularly when it comes to reducing waste and improving customization for global brands. We took AI to the next level.
DPS: Could you discuss HP Nio and how it brings AI into the pressroom?
Gantz: I like to think of HP Nio as having a smart expert right there in your facility. Someone who can look across your entire HP fleet and spot where you can improve.
It looks at things like how each press is performing and helps you understand how to use them better, what jobs should run where, and how to optimize overall utilization.
If you tried to do this yourself, you’d probably need someone with both strong business understanding and deep data skills. Someone who can collect the data, analyze it, and turn it into actionable insights. And that could take weeks.
With HP Nio, you get those insights almost instantly, helping you make smarter and/or critical decisions right away.
DPS: HP continues to expand its automation strategy through partnerships with companies like MoviGo Robotics for Autonomous Mobile Robots. How do you see the physical automation—like moving pallets—integrating with digital automation in the near future?
Gantz: Same as with everything we do, this starts with customer-centric view. We focus on understanding and solving customer challenges by engaging directly with them and their evolving needs.
The partnership with MoviGo is very important for us and for our customers.
Material handling is a critical part of production floor efficiency, but it does not necessarily need to be done manually.
MoviGo is the first step in automating the production flow. It helps address real operational challenges, including labor shortages and the increasing difficulty of recruiting skilled workers. Ultimately, customers are looking for end-to-end solutions that go beyond the press itself, connecting physical automation on the floor with broader production workflow efficiency
DPS: Shifting the discussion to the label side, how is HP helping converters manage the cultural shift to nonstop production?
Gantz: In labels, nonstop printing is becoming a reality on platforms like the HP Indigo V12 Digital Press, where performance improvements translate directly into real capacity and cost impact. We continue to invest in upgrades that improve availability, utilization, and scalability.
Our customers expect nonstop performance from the HP Indigo V12 press as part of their business growth and this is what we deliver day after day.
This ground-breaking narrow-web label press prints at speeds of up to 120 linear meters per minute with all of the capabilities and advantages of HP Indigo’s LEPx technology for label production.
Jun2026, DPS Magazine
