Second year for the National Specialised Print Awards reinforces its place in the industry calendar with more entries than before.
The customer-centric competition has a mission to highlight the quality of digital printing produced on Konica Minolta technology. Books, calendars, posters and even playing cards were among the finalists the awards held in Sydney last night.
The over all winner was Digital Press, the Sydney-based printing company that has a full history of producing innovative and award winning print. Theo Pettaras paid tribute to the company for creating the awards in the first place, the only manufacturer with such a competition.
He received the prizes of a trip to Print 2018 in Chicago next year, accompanied by his Konica Minolta account manager, Devan Nair.
The night was particularly pleasing for Anthony Lewis general manager specialised print Konica Minolta. The awards are his brainchild and he professed to feeling very happy they were so well supported by both the customers and the company. “Watch this space,” he said. “They’re only going to grow bigger.”
There were four categories to enter: digital flat sheet colour output, digital finished output, digital print with embellishment and digital print on label media.
And the winners were:
- Digitalpress for A Meeting of Words – Case Bound and white foil stamped
- The Type Factory for Sketches – Japanese Bound with Curious Collection Translucent dividing sheets
- Designline for Redlands City Council – Perfect Bound
- Images on Paper for Finches in Australia – Book Bound
- Who you Creative for The Waratah – Offset Silver & Gold to Colour Digital Prints
- Shire Labels for Urban Agent – Die cutting in rolls of 1000
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