National Print Awards call for action – ‘get your entries in!’

"Don't leave it until the Christmas rush when you may not have time to put that little extra effort into making sure your entry represents the best your company is capable of producing," said Carrigan. “Make your selection process carefully – and make it before you get tied up with the rush in your business.”

All gold-medal and sponsored awards winners in the 31 Award categories will be announced at a gala presentation ceremony to be held in Melbourne on May 25 – during PacPrint.

Sponsored awards will include The Australian Paper Award, presented for print excellence achieved by a 3rd or 4th year printing machinist apprentice; the Agfa-Gevaert Award for the most innovative use of imaging in printing, and the Heidelberg Australia Award for excellence in craft. Representatives from Agfa and Heidelberg will make their selections from all appropriate entries.

In an industry first, the presentation will take place at the Palladium Room at the Crown Casino on May 25, during PacPrint week – May 24-29.

All medallists will be displayed at the PacPrint ’05 venue – the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre by the Yarra -– for the duration of the exhibition, so that winners can draw an optimum audience to their work at Australasia’s most prestigious printing and graphic arts show.

As well as that, all medal winners will be featured in the Awards Book, a premium-quality record of each year’s winners – and on the National Print Awards website at www.nationalprintawards.com.au

Entries are invited from any person or company associated with the creation, buying, production, reproduction, supply of materials or the actual printing in Australia of any item specified in the listed categories. A PDF version of entry forms can be downloaded.

Globally recognised and endorsed by the Printing Industries Association of Australia, the National Print Awards will now have the opportunity to make an even bigger impact on the industry.

After negotiations between the boards of PacPrint and the National Print Awards earlier this year, the Awards, though they remain a separate enterprise in their own right, will now be a highlight of PacPrint week.

Bouyed by the positive response

Alf Carrigan says he was buoyed by the industry’s early and positive embrace of the idea of staging the Awards during PacPrint and by indications of a significant rise in attendance for the Awards dinner.

“What the industry will see is a convergence of the two biggest red-letter events on the Australasian printing industry’s calendar,” he said, whose stewardship of the National Print Awards has transformed the event over the past three years.

In a joint statement, Carrigan and PacPrint chairman Ron Patterson said: “We are collectively very excited about the inclusion of this important event for the industry in the PacPrint calendar.”

Held at Sydney’s Exhibition and Convention Centre at Darling Harbour last year, the Awards’ return to Melbourne for 2005 will give visitors to PacPrint a chance to see the industry’s finest work, even as they spend the week viewing the latest technology used to produce that work.

In a further sign of industry unity, the National Print Awards committee this year includes an unprecedented level of representation from the Printing Industries Association of Australia.

The National Print Awards committee comprises Alf Carrigan (chairman), Scott Telfer (deputy chairman/Printing Industries NSW president and NSW national councillor), Peter Barker (secretary/Printing Industries Victorian national councillor), Graham Luke (treasurer), Chris Segaert (national president, Printing Industries/NSW national councillor), Adam Todd (Printing Industries NSW), Mark Barrot (Printing Industries Victoria) and Ray Gillies (Printing Industries Victoria).