Entries were “quite simply stunning, impressively punchy in print and varnishing”, helping last year’s commended company become this year’s outright winner. Nokia Siemens Network annual report is a step-by-step essay in brilliance, from the comprehensive digital proofing methodology and bound book proofs at pre-press stage, to the intricate matt tints and cover work on a litho coating press. Post-press perfection included folding, gloss lamination of the cover and three-knife trimming. It was a similar story for the Compass and Hiscox annual reports, while the Uckfield printer went to town on the API Group’s 78pp annual report. Some pages were printed four colour plus a Pantone spot colour, while others were printed black plus a Pantone spot. The cover, screen printed in white on 350gsm Colorplan Cobalt Blue, was one of many finishing touches that led judges to conclude: “This is unquestionably the clear winner in this category; the quality of each sample supplied shone through.” www.pureprint.com 01825 768811 FINALISTS Concept Communications Group Park Communications Pureprint Group...

Take Bentley’s new Flying Spur brochure, with a printed spec as impressive as the car’s: produced in six languages on a six-colour press with inline anilox coating, in-press spectro control and the latest hybrid screening, every detail is superb. The use of gloss and soft-touch spot UV varnishing captures the luxury paintwork and interior veneers. The Jaguar XFR-S Saver brochure, meanwhile, has a clean, modern look requiring the finest detail print to do justice to this highest of high-specification cars. Some 5,000 copies were produced to a tight five-day schedule that sent judges into automative overdrive: “What a fantastic submission.” www.hampton-printing.co.uk 01275 374466 COMMENDED Empress Litho www.empresslitho.com 020 8316 6648 The south London printer was a close runner up, said judges, wooed by Stella McCartney’s Sport Spring/Summer 2013 brochure, which juxtaposed images on coated and uncoated paper and sashayed off two six-colour litho presses – “a great example of a printer executing a challenging design expertly”. FINALISTS Empress Litho Hampton Printing (Bristol) Print 4 Taylor Bloxham The Westdale Press Sponsored by Premier Paper Group...

One stand-out publication, on the abstract sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, was run off a six-colour litho press with inline coater. The slipcase was also printed on the same press in black on Optima greyback on the greyside leaving the white side to line the case. The 8pp jacket was printed one side in CMYK with a matt seal. Books were thread sewn and OTA-bound using cold glue and short grain paper to have the grain run with the spine. The printed jacket was creased and hand folded and the books inserted into the slipcase to ensure an immaculate job from the team in Uckfield, East Sussex. www.pureprint.com 01825 768811 COMMENDED Berforts Butler Tanner & Dennis www.butlertanneranddennis.com 01373 451500 Production for Ian Lawson’s From the Land Comes the Cloth told a story of its own. Berforts Butler Tanner & Dennis’s large-format press was used for 32 pages on each sheet and folding into 16-page sections. Binding involved 200gsm offset material and a case made with 3500-micron boards in Brillianta cloth, all singled out for praise by the judges. FINALISTS Berforts Butler Tanner & Dennis Northend Creative Print Solutions Park Communications Pureprint Group TJ International The Westdale Press...

Last November, the London company had to produce a giant Meerkat Tales children’s book for a nationwide promotional tour. By giant, the client meant A0-size text pages printed digitally and gloss laminated to emulate a typical children’s reading book. All production was polished off in-house within 72 hours. Impact and timing were crucial for another job: two Jaguar Land Rover presentation books, in a bespoke slipcase, with covers also printed digitally on large-format presses and gloss laminated. This was completed in fewer than 36 hours, but the judges praise was more succinct: “A clear winner in a category rammed with the wow factor.” www.screamingcolour.com 020 7549 3400 COMMENDED Empress Litho www.empresslitho.com 020 8316 6648 Last year’s finalist almost stole the crown this year with products that were, in the judges’ eyes, “awesome – no other word for them”. BrandMe 1993-2013, a designer’s own brochure celebrating 20 years of branding, boasted an 8pp cover on a landscape book without the usual join, coloured cloth spine and “good use of imaginative finishing techniques.” FINALISTS Celloglas Empress Litho Screaming Colour...

The Land Rover Experience, however, was quite an experience. New vehicle owners were targeted with an invite to a complimentary stomach-churning off-road experience at one of seven Land Rover Experience Centres in the UK. The customer offer had an inset USB pre-loaded with a Land Rover ?lm, a map and an invitation. Once a booking was made the customer received a mailing with core personalised details: times, maps and what to wear. The Real Digital team revved up its digital printing presses for duplex personalisation, while the judges sat back and enjoyed the ride: “Great quality targeted direct marketing that over-delivered on the client’s brief and provided a tangible return on investment.” www.real-digital.co.uk 020 8603 7000 COMMENDED Eclipse 4dm www.eclipse4dm.com 01536 416426 Last October, Eclipse Colour took over 4DM Group. As one of Britain’s largest commercial print and direct mail providers it had much to prove, and did so with campaigns including welcome packs for subscribers to The Times. Duplex lasered letters, voucher books and thermally printed personalised cards were hailed by judges as “excellent, with real attention to detail”. FINALISTS Eclipse 4dm The Lettershop Group Real Digital International Sponsored by printweekjobs...