All the Gold medal winners from the 27th National Print Awards

Here they are, the best of the best. The gold prize winning print produced in Australia in 2009. Medals were awarded on Friday March 26, 2010. Check it out, your own winning entry, your colleagues and peers, your competitors.

A well-behaved crowd of 500 attended last week’s National Print Awards in Sydney.

For Queensland-based Platypus Graphics it was a night to remember.  In addition to winning four gold awards, it was also awarded the PaperlinX prize. “It was a surprise,” admitted the company’s director, Tom Lusch. “To win one award makes you happy, but to win more than anybody else makes you feel very proud.”

Neal McLary, general manager of Printing Industries, Queensland, saw Platypus Graphics’ achievement as a victory not only for the company, but the whole of the state.

“Platypus Graphics is an amazing company,” he said. “They are a great ambassador for the Queensland printing industry. Their success at the National Print Awards is indicative of a state that has always aspired to being bigger and better.”

Despite the celebrations, there was still a strong sense of reality reflected in the awards. In a sobering speech, national president, Jim Atkinson, congratulated all winners, but encouraged the crowd not to rest on their laurels; citing the recent number of printers to have bitten the dust.

“Tonight has proven that printing is still alive and kicking goals, but don’t get too complacent,” he said. “This year is not much better than the annus horribilis of last year.”

 

Gold medal winners

Adams Print … Calendars
Avon Graphics … Embellishment
Bambra Press … Digital printing electrophotographic
Cadillac Printing … Web offset coated stock press finished
D & D Colour Printing … Stationery
Digitalpress … Specialty or “special” printing
Finsbury Green … Multi-piece productions and campaigns
FiveStarPrint … Packaging
Focal Printing … Leaflets and folders
GEON … Die-cut presentation folders
GEON … Booklets, catalogues and magazines saddle-stitched
Impresstik … Labels
Offset Alpine … Web offset coated stock off-line finished
Offset Alpine … Web offset publications with a cover price
Offset Alpine … Web offset un-coated stock
Peachy Print Australia … Small printing business awards less than 10 staff
Picpress … Limited editions
Pilpel Print … Postcards and greeting cards
Platypus Graphics … One, two or three colour printing
Platypus Graphics … Commercial posters, showcards, card constructions and mobiles
Platypus Graphics … Booklets, catalogues and magazines bound by any method but saddle-stitching
Platypus Graphics … Book printing
R A Printing … Annual reports
STS Creative Printing … Screen printing
The Laminating Company (Victoria) … Self-promotion

No winners were awarded in the following categories: art reproductions; security printing; flexographic printing; digital printing inkjet and innovation.