Aussie printers score HP award success

Australian print and signage companies featured significantly in this year’s HP Digital Print Excellence Awards, presented at the Dscoop conference in Bali.

Billboard Media took out the overall sign and display award after winning the outdoor advertising category, Melbourne-based Picpress scooped two awards and Sydney niche printer Carbon8 took out three in Photo Book – Art; General Commercial Printing – Marketing Collateral; and General Commercial Printing – Leaflets, Flyers and Brochure.

Directors Peter Musarra (above left) and Ken Beck (above right) accepted the awards at the HP Dscoop Asia conference. Musarra says, “We are obviously immensely proud. This is recognition and validation for a commitment to quality and innovation. Each one of those pieces has a combination of innovation in the print and the paper; it’s all encompassing. A lot of that wouldn’t happen if we didn’t have access to good suppliers.”

Gido van Praag, vice president and general manager for graphics solutions business HP Asia Pacific and Japan, says, “Printing companies in the region are constantly challenged by their customers to deliver innovative print works across multiple applications. Winners of the HP Digital Print Excellence Awards 2014 exemplify the companies that have delivered impactful results with digital printing.”

Carbon8 won the overall HP Indigo prize last year. The company has a knack for producing work that adds value to its products through innovative use of the available technology. Ken Beck says, “With the HP Indigo 5500 and 7600 Digital Presses in our printing fleet, we are able to take on high-value print jobs across different applications. This you can see with the print work that we are lucky enough to have been able to deliver to date, including what is being recognised today. We have to know what is possible. We know people will try to catch up but we are always trying to stay multiple steps ahead. We are delighted to receive the awards and certainly look forward to putting our HP digital presses through their paces on many future projects.”

Other Australians figured prominently. Picpress received special recognition in the Photobook category and won the Limited Edition Art Reproduction

category where Momento Pro received special recognition. In the general commercial printing point of sales category Pressprint Digital received special recognition.

Next Printing won the corrugated packaging category and special recognition went to Cactus Imaging for outdoor advertising and Insane Signs for green printing.

Lists of winners below

HP Indigo winners:

Grand Winner – General Commercial Printing
• Beijing JingPinDaoYuan Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (China)

Grand Winner – Photo Book
• Canvera Digital Technologies Private Limited (India)

Creative Award
• PT Xerography Indonesia

Photo Book – Art
• Winner– Canvera Digital Technologies Private Limited (India)
• Winner – Fototoy.com (Korea)
• Winner– Carbon8 (Australia)

Photo Book – Premium
• Winner – Beijing HengMei Impression Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (China)
• Winner– Sri Sivarama Digital Press (India)
• Special Recognition– Abyz Co.Ltd. (Korea)
• Special Recognition– Picpress (Australia)

Photo Book – Consumer
• Winner– Chengdu Beier Digital Video Making Co., Ltd (China)
• Special Recognition– Shanghai Shenyuan Digao Digital Printing Co., Ltd. (China)
• Special Recognition– Shenzhen Guocai Digital Printing Co., Ltd. (China)

Limited Edition and Art Reproduction
• Winner – Picpress (Australia)
• Special Recognition – Momento Pro (Australia)
• Special Recognition – Sichuan Post and Oasis Photo Co., Ltd. (China)

General Commercial Printing – Calendar
• Winner – Sri Sivarama Digital Press (India)
• Winner – Macro Media Digital Imaging Pvt. Ltd. (India)
• Special Recognition – FungChoi Printing and Packing Group (China)

General Commercial Printing – Marketing Collateral
• Winner – CyberPrint Group Co. Ltd. (Thailand)
• Winner – Carbon8 (Australia)
• Creative Award – PT Xerography Indonesia (Indonesia)
• Special Recognition – Thomson Press (India) Limited (India)
• Special Recognition – Henan Century Hengtai Digital Color Printing Co., Ltd. (China)
• Special Recognition – Silverpoint Press Pvt. Ltd. (India)
• Special Recognition – Image Centre Ltd (New Zealand)

General Commercial Printing – Point of Sales
• Winner – Chanakya Mudrak Pvt. Ltd (India)
• Special Recognition – Sri Sivarama Digital Press (India)
• Special Recognition – Press Print Digital (Australia)
• Special Recognition – Wenzhou Ya Feng Digital Printing Company (China)

General Commercial Printing – Leaflets, Flyers, Brochure
• Winner – Silverpoint Press Pvt. Ltd. (India)
• Winner – Carbon8 (Australia)
• Special Recognition – Chanakya Mudrak Pvt. Ltd (India)
• Special Recognition – Beijing HengMei Impression Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (China)

Restaurant Menu
• Winner – Beijing JingPinDaoYuan Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (China)
• Special Recognition – CyberPrint Group Co. Ltd. (Thailand)

Books and Manual
• Winner – Shenzhen Guocai Digital Printing Co., Ltd. (China)
• Winner – Beijing QL-art Printing Co., Ltd. (China)
• Special Recognition – Thomson Press (India) Limited (India)
• Special Recognition – Shijiazhuang Lingxiu Digital Printing Co., Ltd (China)
• Special Recognition- Shanxi Bearing Printing Supplies Co. Ltd.(China)

Direct Mail and Transpromo
• Special Recognition – Buzzimic (India)

Flexible Tubes
• Special Recognition – Aekyung PNT (Korea)

Folding Cartons
• Winner – Chanakya Mudrak Pvt. Ltd (India)
• Special Recognition – Fashion Insight Co. Ltd (PHOTO MON) (Korea)
• Special Recognition – Wenzhou Ya Feng Digital Printing Company (China)

Labels – Pharmaceutical & Neutraceutical
• Special Recognition – Hally Labels Ltd (New Zealand)

Labels – Industrial
• Winner – Top Print Labels (SuZhou) Co., Ltd. (China)
• Special Recognition – Wenzhou Haoge Anti-counterfeiting Technology Co., Ltd. (China)
• Special Recognition – SATO PRINTING CO., LTD. (Japan)

Labels – Health & Beauty
• Winner – Zhong Shan Zhan Tu Printing Co., Ltd. (China)
• Special Recognition – Honsen Printing Industries Pte Ltd (Singapore)

Labels – Food
• Winner – Pyramid Labels (Malaysia)
• Special Recognition – Honsen Printing Industries Pte Ltd (Singapore)

Labels – Wine & Spirits
• Winner – Janus International Pvt. Ltd. (India)
• Special Recognition – Pyramid Labels (Malaysia)
• Special Recognition – MSP Inc. (Japan)
• Special Recognition – Sato Printing Co (Japan)

Labels – Non-Alcoholic Beverages
• Special Recognition – Sato Printing Co (Japan)

Flexible Packaging
• Winner – Yoshimura Package Partners Co., Ltd. (Japan)
HP Sign and Display
Entries for the HP Sign and Display were judged across the following categories: Decoration, Corrugated Packaging, Outdoor Advertising, Retail POP/POS, Green Digital Printing and Vehicles Graphics. The award assessment criteria included innovation and creativity, marketing appeal, best use of ink and color, creative print application installation and overall aesthetics.

Below is the full list of winners for HP Sign & Display:

Overall Grand Winner
• Billboard Media (Australia)

Overall Creative Winner
• Graphic Art Workshop (China)

Decoration
• Winner – Pinwheel Media Group Inc. (Philippines)
• Special Recognition– Work Image Technologies Co., Ltd. (Taiwan)

Corrugated Packaging
• Winner – Next Printing (Australia)
• Special Recognition– Spectrum Scani PVT. LTD (India)

Outdoor Advertising
• Winner – Billboard Media (Australia)
• Special Recognition– Cactus Imaging (Australia)

Retail POP/POS
• Winner – Dot Digital Pvt Ltd (India)
• Special Recognition– HIS WILL Inc. (South Korea)

Green Digital Printing
• Winner – Graphic Art Workshop (China)
• Special Recognition– Insane Signs (Australia)

Vehicle Graphics
• Winner– Dot Digital Pvt Ltd (India)
• Special Recognition– Ji Hwa (South Korea)

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