MIAMISBURG, Ohio, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- NewPage Corporation announced
today that it has signed a preferred partner agreement with the
Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) to expand the capabilities and advantages of the
HP Indigo digital press solutions to even greater heights. This partnership
shows a mutual commitment to support the ever growing and expanding needs of
the HP Indigo community.
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"Media suppliers, such as NewPage, give print service providers greater
flexibility in the types of products they can print, and have long been a
valued contributor to the growth of the HP Indigo business," said Alon
Bar-Shany, vice president and general manager, Indigo division, HP. "We are
pleased to have NewPage as a preferred media partner and look forward to ever
greater successes in collaboration with them."
NewPage manufactures widely recognized media brands specifically optimized
for printing on HP Indigo equipment: Futura Laser(R), a 96 bright,
exceptionally smooth Premium paper; Sterling Ultra Digital(TM) for Indigo, a
90 bright, No. 2, known as the coated paper workhorse for Indigo presses and
styled to match both Productolith(R) and Sterling(R) Ultra folio sheets from
NewPage, and Blazer Digital(R), an economy paper offering designed to compete
with imported No. 3 papers.
"We are extremely honored to be an HP Indigo Preferred Partner. It is an
exclusive designation and we will work diligently to expand the breadth and
depth of papers available to the Indigo community," says Michelle Garrett,
manager, marketing strategy for digital papers at NewPage. "Our partnership
with HP Indigo is a critical measure of our commitment to continue
manufacturing high quality, fine printing papers for the digital platform.
Printers today understand the total cost of value to their clients, and our
papers help those printers bring value to their clients by enabling greater
image quality, snap, color fidelity, efficiency on press and post-press
performance."
Please contact a NewPage sales representative or visit www.NewPageCorp.com
for more details.
About NewPage Corporation
Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, NewPage Corporation is the largest
coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with
$4.7 billion in pro forma net sales for the year ended December 31, 2007. The
company's product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes
coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered, newsprint and specialty
papers. These papers are used for corporate collateral, commercial printing,
magazines, catalogs, books, coupons, inserts, newspapers, packaging
applications and direct mail advertising.
NewPage owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nova Scotia, and Wisconsin. These mills currently have a total
annual production capacity of approximately 5.5 million tons of paper,
including approximately 4.3 million tons of coated paper, approximately
920,000 tons of uncoated paper and approximately 300,000 tons of specialty
paper, as well as approximately 3.2 million tons of pulp.
About HP
HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers
- from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that
spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure,
HP is among the world's largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $110.4
billion for the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2008. More information
about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
SOURCE NewPage Corporation
Shawn Hall, NewPage Corporation, +1-937-242-9373
