PrintWeek Awards 2013 Post-press Company of the Year – Screaming Colour
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...
read morePrintWeek Awards 2013 Newspaper Printer of the Year – Trinity Mirror Printing (Watford)
The Daily Mirror Olympic Souvenir Edition of 28 July 2012 was a highpoint for a newspaper that remains a core business, with a nightly print order of around 500,000 copies requiring three high-speed presses. The souvenir edition comprised 96 pages including Olympic, racing and puzzle sections, all printed in one pass on a coldset web-offset presses. The Daily Mirror recycled newsprint brings its own demands on print quality, such as showthrough and strikethrough. But the business consistently performs to ensure everyone reads all about it in titles including The Racing Post (around 80,000 copies nightly), The Independent (around 130,000 copies nightly) and The Irish Independent on Sunday (around 15,000 copies per edition). www.trinitymirrorprinting.co.uk 020 7293 3000 COMMENDED Archant Print www.archant.co.uk 01603 772747 Deadlines, as with most newspapers, are tight, which makes good quality printing hard to achieve. But the Norwich printer delivered for Angling News and Classic Car Weekly, Garden News and MCN to win praise from judges for the team’s “impressive control of crossovers and a very consistent entry throughout”. FINALISTS Archant Print Trinity Mirror Printing (Oldham) Trinity Mirror Printing (Watford)...
read morePrintWeek Awards 2013 FMCG Packaging Printer of the Year – Ultimate Packaging
Patak’s decided digital print was the answer for short runs of flexible packaging due to the reduced set-up time, cost and ease of use. Ultimate’s digital print division, launched only last year, insists that when required, digital print can be matched to conventional print techniques. Digital print offers print quality when very small text and details are required, and it also provides strong and colourful vignettes across film, says the company in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Judges agreed, singling out time spent on repro as “probably the factor that swung it for this entry – it was beautifully done”. www.ultimate-packaging.co.uk 01472 255400 COMMENDED Interflex www.interflexgroup.com 0191 501 1777 Tesco Toffee Popcorn and Kit Kat two-finger Cookies and Cream bars helped Interflex, based in Midlothian and Sunderland, score well this year. Registration control on the press was critical to the quality of the Kit Kat packaging. This design was printed on a Flexotecnica Tachys press using Sun Chemical Solimax Inks, with Sandon Global’s high-volume process anilox rolls. FINALISTS Interflex The Sherwood Press Group Ultimate Packaging...
read morePrintWeek Awards 2013 Book Printer of the Year – Pureprint 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...
read morePrintWeek Awards 2013 Direct Mail Printer of the Year – Real Digital International
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...
read morePrintWeek Awards 2013 Social Stationery Printer of the Year – The Sherwood Press Group
Artwork for the Paper Rose cards was supplied via FTP for proofing using Sherwood’s inkjet proofing system. The cards were then litho printed in a six-colour Hexachrome set of vegetable-based inks with an overall semi-matt varnish with offline spot UV varnish. The range of cards was multi-level textured embossed on the face of the card. The Hexachrome print on this range was a key to success and the emboss on the characters made them come to life. Brightness gave the cards shelf presence and helped to drive product selection and sales, while landing top prize and praise this year for the Sherwood Press Group. www.sherwood-press.co.uk 0115 928 7766 COMMENDED Loxleys Print www.loxleys.co.uk 0114 250 1150 The ‘Back to Black’ card was clean, simple, striking and “stunningly printed”, said the judges. Both texture and visual appearance of intricate detail on the thermographic process, which involved clear thermographic print with black ink, was of upmost importance. The cards were printed single-colour litho. FINALISTS Loxleys Print Piccolo Press The Sherwood Press Group Windles Group...
read morePrintWeek Awards 2013 Brochure Printer of the Year – Hampton Printing (Bristol)
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...
read morePrintWeek Awards 2013 Brochure Printer of the Year – Hampton Printing (Bristol)
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...
read morePrintWeek Awards celebrate Power of Print as winners are revealed
The event, hosted by quick-witted comedian Dara O Briain, celebrated the Power of Print across its many guises and applications. The Grosvenor House Great Room looked stunning as high-tech graphics kicked off a pulsating evening. PrintWeek editor and publisher Darryl Danielli set the upbeat tone when he opened proceedings with a welcome speech highlighting the renewed sense of optimism in the industry. He said: “I believe that when we look back on 2013, it will become apparent that it was a truly transformative year for print, when our focus finally switched from survival to growth and opportunity.” With 23 hotly-contested categories awarded on the night, it was Enfield-based Inc Direct that triumphed as PrintWeek’s Company of the Year. The £5.9m firm won praise for its strong financial performance, fuelled by its expertise in multi-channel personalised communication services that have delivered impressive growth for Inc Direct and successful campaigns for its clients. Chief executive Noel Warner said: “We’re on top of the world, it’s fantastic. There were some big names up there and it’s a tough category. When our name was announced it was the proudest moment of my career.” Warner added: “I believe passionately in the business and the people who work at Inc Direct, we’re doing great stuff working with fabulous customers. To get this PrintWeek Award is a validation of our strategy -everything we’re doing is about value-added, not a commodity. This is like winning an Oscar.” Multi-Award winners included Pureprint Group, which carried off three trophies; while The Westdale Press, Screaming Colour and Real Digital International each took home a brace of Awards. Attendees also gave generously to the prize draw in aid of The Printing Charity, with more than £5,600 raised on the night. After the Awards presentation, guests captured the fun spirit of the evening in the on-site photobooth Mini, and then took to the dance floor as live band Funky Buddha played the night out. “The range of work submitted for this year’s Awards demonstrated a true understanding of the power of print,” Danielli added. “Well done to everyone who was shortlisted across some incredibly tough categories. And huge congratulations to all our winners.” Full list of winners of the PrintWeek Awards 2013 (click on the links) Company of the Year SME of the Year Environmental Company of the Year Customer Service Team of the Year Trainee of the Year Luxury Packaging Printer of the Year Bespoke Digital Printer of the Year Catalogue Printer of the Year Magazine Printer of the Year Brochure Printer of the Year Point-of-purchase Printer of the Year Fine Art Printer of the Year Cross-media Company of the Year Industrial Digital Printer of the Year FMCG Packaging Printer of the Year Newspaper Printer of the Year Post-press Company of the Year Direct Mail Printer of the Year Book Printer of the Year Reports and Accounts Printer of the Year Label Printer of the Year Poster Printer of the Year Social Stationery Printer of the Year...
read morePrintWeek Awards 2013 Point-of-Purchase Printer of the Year – The Delta Group
While the kids’ verdict remains to be seen, the judges were already convinced: “Great consistency, colour, vibrancy, and well thought-out construction so that the reality looked just as good as the concept sounded.” In total there were 32 print set-ups on Foamboard, EB Flute corrugated and PVC including 10 for the archway and six for the dragon produced on a digital flatbed press. Other successes included material for Oz, The Great and Powerful, the latest 3D Disney movie, such as an 11sqm stand for 220 flagship cinemas across Europe. A Finding Nemo 3D window and backdrop display of up to 4sqm, meanwhile, included water effects, prompting awe-struck judges to hail an “impressive variety and exceptional quality of print and construction”. www.thedeltagroup.co.uk 020 8498 4400 FINALISTS Augustus Martin The Delta Group Inspirepac Sponsored by Bordeaux and Stehlin Hostag Ink UK...
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