HP Indigo Digital Presses First to Achieve New Idealliance Master Elite Level ISO/PAS 15339 Certification

HP Indigo Commercial and Label and Packaging digital presses demonstrate consistent capability to print to specified color spaces with extraordinary color tolerance control.

Alexandria, Va. (March 19, 2018) — Idealliance, a global thought leader in the graphic communications industry and a non-profit organization with 11 strategically located offices around the world, announces that both the HP Indigo commercial digital presses and the HP Indigo Label & Packaging presses have been certified with Master Elite Level ISO/PAS 15339 Certification designations. Idealliance ISO/PAS 15339 Certification is an element of the Idealliance Digital Press Certification for digital printing press manufacturers, allowing OEMs to certify and demonstrate press aptitude capability as it relates to capability to print to scified color spaces and color tolerance control.

By achieving the highest level of the Idealliance Digital Press and Master Elite Level of Idealliance ISO/PAS 15339 Certification, HP Indigo presses clearly demonstrated not only their capability to print to the largest color gamut, Universal Extra Large CRPC 7, within CIEDE2000 tolerances as specified in CGATS TR 016-2014, but also their capability to hold color consistently.

“This certification is a significant differentiator for OEMs such as HP Indigo,” said Timothy Baechle, Idealliance Vice President, Global Print Technologies & Workflows. “It offers buyers of technology empirical data upon which to base their purchasing decisions as well as offering print specifiers great confidence in production coming from HP Indigo technology. It is important to note that in achieving this certification, HP Indigo sheetfed presses driven by the HP SmartStream digital front end, held tighter tolerances than outlined in the Idealliance ISO PAS 15339 Master Elite bracket, which is an outstanding achievement. Our congratulations go out to HP Indigo and its entire technical staff for their tremendous work in achieving this status.”

“We are proud to be the first digital printing company to have received the Idealliance ISO PAS 15339 Certification,” said Aviram Iluz, Color Management Product Marketing Manager, HP Indigo. “This achievement is a testament to our commitment to continuously innovate in the realm of color and print quality and enable our customers to drive higher margins and grow their businesses by winning color critical clients. The ability to provide superior color that is accurate, consistent, and repeatable, sets our customers a step ahead of their competition. We are grateful for Idealliance’s consistent effort in driving the printing industry to achieve the highest performance in creation, production, and delivery of graphic communications.”

About HP Indigo Digital Presses

HP Indigo commercial presses, driven by HP’s SmartStream digital front end, set the industry standard for print quality, productivity, and application range. Indigo’s liquid electrophotography printing process enables printing on virtually unlimited substrates that other electrophotographic digital presses are unable to accommodate, including synthetics, canvas and metallized material. Currently available models certified in this process include:

• HP Indigo 50000 Digital Press – An oversized B1 duplex webfed press, which can be integrated with a robust end-to-end solution. The HP Indigo 50000, HP Indigo’s most productive press, offers HP Indigo quality and economies of scale, allowing large PSPs to print high-coverage designs on virtually any type of paper.
• HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press, a B2 digital offset press with extensive capabilities to produce the widest commercial applications range with superior print quality, high productivity, and wide versatility.
• HP Indigo 12000 HD – Leveraging the successful HP Indigo 12000 platform, the HP Indigo 12000HD has boosted versatility, productivity, and introduces new image quality standards for smoothness, sharpness, and detail reproduction, with 1600 DPI and new high LPI screens up to 290.
• HP Indigo 7900 Digital Press, raising the bar in quality, versatility and productivity with printing speed up to 160 color pages per minute with a 33 x 48 cm (13 x 19 in) maximum sheet size, this press offers distinct printing capabilities that enable the widest range of digital applications.
• HP Indigo 5900 Digital Press with printing speed up to 90 color pages per minute with a maximum sheet size of 33 x 48 cm (13 x 19 in), capable of printing on boards up to 550 microns in thickness, is the entry point to HP Indigo’s offset matching quality and versatility.
• The HP Indigo 7r Digital Press is a productive and trustworthy work horse which is the result of a carefully crafted and executed reconditioning process. It offers uncompromising offset matching print quality, high productivity and a variety of high-value applications
• The new Indigo 5r is a robust and trustworthy solution which is the result of a carefully crafted and executed reconditioning process, offering the offset matching print quality and variety of high-value applications as the Indigo 5000 series

HP Indigo commercial webfed presses, driven by the HP Production Pro for Indigo Labels and Packaging Print Server, are a solution to accommodate the analog-to-digital transformation that the labels and packaging industry is currently undergoing. Currently available webfed models serving the labels and packaging segment include:

• HP Indigo 20000, with speeds of up to 55,118 square feet per hour in four-color mode, supporting media thickness of 10 to 250 microns, ideal for production of flexible packaging, large labels, IML, and shrink sleeves. The HP Indigo 20000 also supports commercial print applications and wallpaper.
• HP Indigo 8000 Digital Press, the most productive narrow-web printing solution with speeds of up to 260 feet per minute (80 meters per minute) for labels and packaging production, with a maximum web width of 13.4 in (34 cm), designed to handle even the longest and most demanding jobs, enabling converters to reshape their business and move toward full digital production.
• HP Indigo 6900 Digital Press outperforms the market leading narrow-web printing solution for digital labels and packaging production, the HP Indigo WS6800, enabling converters to print any label, any job, at any run length, in a more productive way, with renowned HP Indigo print quality.
• HP Indigo 30000 Digital Press, a market-proven, 75 cm format, offset-matching, sheet-fed solution with the ability to print on a multitude of substrates, including synthetics and metallized media, empowering folding carton converters to capture high-margin opportunities and move to more efficient production.

About Idealliance Digital Press Certification Programs

Newly added to the Idealliance Digital Press Certification Program, the Idealliance ISO/PAS 15339 Certification allows OEMs to demonstrate the capability of their presses to print to a variety of color spaces specified by the Characterized Reference Printing Conditions of ISO/PAS 15339. The program comprises two tiers—CRPC 1-6 and CRPC 1-6 Plus 7—and four aptitude levels: Master Elite, Advanced Elite, Intermediate Elite, and Satisfactory Elite. More information about this certification can be found here.

Idealliance is the largest certifying body in the world and is recognized globally as an industry think tank; a developer of specifications and standards, certifications, training, and research; and the intersection of innovation, education, and validation. Idealliance has programs that cross many sectors of the industry and serve all those who participate in the global graphic communications industry.

Idealliance ISO/PAS 15339 also has a number of ISO and CGATS Standards associated with it. Color measurement and data analysis are derived from specifications, either wholly or in part, found in the following standards:

• CGATS 21:2013 Graphic Technology – Printing digital data across multiple technologies;
• ISO 3664:2009 Graphic Technology and Photography – Viewing conditions;
• ISO 12642-2:2015 Graphic Technology (IT8.7/4) – Input data for characterization of 4-color process printing – Part 2: Expanded dataset;
• ISO 12647-7:2016 Graphic Technology – Process control for the production of halftone color separations, proof and production prints – Part 7: Proofing processes working directly from digital data;
• ISO 13655:2017 Graphic Technology – Spectral measurement and colorimetric computation for graphic arts images;
• ISO/PAS 15339 Graphic technology – Printing from digital data across multiple technologies:
  Part 1: Principles
  Part 2: Characterized reference printing conditions, CRPC1–CRPC7.

For more information on the Idealliance ISO/PAS 15339 Certification, please contact Timothy Baechle at (703) 837-1069 (tbaechle@idealliance.org), or Project Manager of Certification Programs Jordan Gorski at (703) 837-1096 (jgorski@idealliance.org).