1. Team, Mission and Strategy
HP Indigo Media
Team, Mission and Strategy

2. Supplies and Media Director
HP Indigo Worldwide
Media Team
Allon Maoz
Supplies and Media Director
Laura Field
WW Commercial
Media Team Leader
NA&LA
Evelyn Niebauer
EMEA
Ilya Zaitsev
CEE / MEMA
Weng Kong Chan
APJ
Gerard Geurts
WW L&P
Media Team Leader
Judy Finlay
Les Read
Our Focus:
Customers
Paper mills
Media Manufacturers
Merchants
Internal teams
Channel Partners
Chemical suppliers

3. HP Indigo’s Media Mission
To support HP Indigo’s page growth by:
Enable the widest range of off-the-shelf cost-effective substrates
Increase media availability in all regions
Drive continuous competitive solutions
Support the widest range of environmentally responsible media

4. HP Indigo’s Media program
The Media program brings together industry leading suppliers interested in creating media
solutions for HP Indigo customers
Certified vendors includes paper mills, merchants and converters that offer certified solutions evaluated in our media testing centers (150+)
Certified and Preferred status includes not only substrates certification but also product development and go-to-market cooperation (11 commercial preferred partners)
HP promotes media partners’ solutions in trade shows, events, demos,
marketing collaterals, and on the web

5. HP Indigo Media Training
Media types
Paper - Uncoated / smooth (calendared), texttured - Coated : matt / silk / gloss
- Colored
Carton Board - Coated 1 side / 2 sides
Recycled
Carbonless
Magnetics
Pre-converted sheets (Mailing)
Photo recommended Papers
Self-adhesive
Syntethics
Lenticular
Canvas
You never know what tomorrow will bring… New types of media are being invented every day.

6. Quick review of Media for HP Indigo presses
Plain Papers
Papers that naturally work on HP Indigo presses that do not have added chemicals or surface treatments. Standard commercially available solutions. Many are listed on our media locator.
Optimized Paper
Papers specifically made for HP Indigo presses. These papers have added ingredients in the manufacturing process to optimize print quality when used on HP Indigo presses.
Over 75% of HP Indigo Solutions are either untreated or Optimized in the manufacturing process
Sapphire Treatment
Today’s customers infrequently use this treatment for special papers. Current paper selection encompasses a wide variety of papers and alternatives that do not require surface treatment.

7. HP Indigo’s Evaluation of Media
Purpose of certification: to provide our customers with media recommendations for a large variety of applications. The media must prove to be reliable, of sufficient quality and perform well on press and with our consumables. Our media compatibility testing centers for commercial presses are: RIT (Rochester Institute of technology) for NA and LA suppliers Singapore (HP internal testing center) for APJ and EMEA suppliers
The substrate certification procedure is built from 3 main categories:
Runnability – check the ability of the machine to run the tested substrate.
Optimization – check the fixing parameters (peeling, flaking) of the substrate at several points, additional data is received for the optimize working point (SPP).
Blanket compatibility – check the 2nd transfer in terms of transferability, cleaning ability of the tested substrate, memories, small dots.

8. HP Indigo’s Media certification program
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HP Indigo Media Training
HP Indigo’s Media certification program
HP Indigo operates two official media certification centers
RIT (North America and Latin America)
HP Singapore (ROW)
All certification centers use the same testing methods to ensure consistent results
All media are tested for
Runability
Fixing
Fixing
Blanket Compatibility
Runability
Performance on each of these test segments is graded:
Best Performing
On the HP Indigo Media Solutions Locator (myindigo) you will find more detailed information. Each substrate is listed with it’s certification ratings per category, weights, supplier links, and more.
Recommended Paper
Good Paper
To date 4,000+ off the shelf substrates available WW:
In NA 1,196 commercial / 380 label & packaging
In EMEA commercial / 380 label & packaging
In APJ ... commercial / ... label& packaging
(25%+ YOY growth)
HP Confidential

9. HP Indigo Media Training
HP Indigo’s Media certification program
Screen vs. Full Evaluation
To certify a range of paper weights, two full evaluations will be conducted on the lowest and highest basis weight and a screen evaluation will be conducted on the middle weight. Additional screen evaluations will be added depending of the number of paper machines the range is produced on. On approval of these, the other weights in the range will be approved based on interpolation.
Additional we test for all coated and uncoated papers if they can be recommended for photo applications. For this test we use higher level of ink coverage and light cyan/light magenta.
The Specialty Test is a shorter test compared to the standard certification procedure, and is intended for substrates where low print volumes are expected.
In addition to the runnability, fixing and blanket compatibility, selected Print Quality parameters such as Color Plane Registration (CPR) are also evaluated.
Note: Substrates are not certified for any kind of application and/or finishing requirements.
Therefore it’s recommended that users test their individual application/finishing requirements, etc.

10. HP Indigo Media Training
Media Certification Grading System
Grading is given for each of the 3 building block independently:
Blanket Compatibility, Fixing & Runability
Other\Special applications - either 'Approved' or 'not approved‘ for the application:
White ink
Photo
One shot
Best performing substrate
Recommended substrate
Good substrate
While lesser used, the white ink, Photo and One Shot testing is performed on special media. These details are noted in the media locator for the related substrate.

11. HP Indigo’s Commercial Certification Procedure
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HP Indigo’s Commercial Certification Procedure
The media certification procedure incorporates several procedures. These tests are created by HP Indigo R&D and executed by the two certification centers.
After passing a short initial screening evaluation, the substrate is passed on for a more comprehensive evaluation looking at the performance of the particular substrate within the press.
Manufacturers are usually the organizations that submit their product for certifications. They are also responsible for maintaining manufacturing of the product to the same specs as the product that was certified to ensure consistent results.

12. HP Indigo Certification Matrix
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HP Indigo Certification Matrix
Certified on 5600 (multi shot) also certified for:
Certified on 7500 also certified for:
Certified on one-shot ONLY certified for 5600 one-shot
substrate
Nr. of sheets for full test
Nr. of sheets for screen test
Nr. of sheets for specialty test
3050
3500
3550
5000
5500
7000
7500
7600
5600
coated gloss
6.000
1.500 - x
coated matt
uncoated
x * x*
C2S gloss
C2S matt
C1S gloss coated side
C1S gloss UNcoated side
C1S matt coated side
C1S matt UNcoated side
synthetic
1.000
Specialty
dark & clear ** 50
WHITE INK (additional test)
2.000
please see above
Substrates are usually tested on one type of press, and then populated to other presses certification lists. This chart shows how certifications are posted on multiple press lists.
* Only optimized uncoated papers / 5500 and up is a pressure control for the 2nd transfer which allows uncoated papers to perform
much better while applying higher pressure

13. Media Locator is on MyIndigo
All employees have access
Look for the link in the lower
left hand side

14. https://h21021.www2.hp.com/MediaSolution/
Media Locator

15. Detailed per region: Country, press, media type, etc…

16. Press specifications differ : Know the details…..
Commercial presses and Label and Packaging presses have different specs and certified substrates.
Commercial presses also have media distinctions within their line-up
Thick substrate up-grade kit. 18PT capabilities
One Shot mode certification
Photo rated substrates
White ink kit. Dark substrates that need to hold a lot of ink.
Coated papers vs uncoated papers. Many presses have different weight specs for the two types.
Customers can add on features that broaden media specs.
Starting with a 5600 and adding the one shot option enables the use of Tyvec!

17. Thank You!