Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday formed a new Internet Solutions Operation to develop Internet and intranet software for its printers and other networked hard-copy devices. The division’s first offering will be an intranet version of its JetAdmin printer management software, which should be available in the fall. The division is being located in HP’s Boise, Idaho-based LaserJet Solutions Group. Boise is one of the places hit by HP’s withdrawal from the disk business. The division will be headed by general manager Bill Sharpe, who was formerly a lab director at HP Laboratories in Bristol, here. The intranet printer management system will enable corporate intranet users to monitor network printer and scanner activity from Web browsers. HP says the tool is part of what is now an extended Operation Camouflage network printing initiative originally created in March 1995 that is supposedly backed by Novell Inc, Microsoft Corp and IBM Corp.
