Icecream and wine deliver Aussie World Label wins

Australian labellers have taken out three joint best-in-class wins at the L9 World Label Awards for 2013, their talent for the finer things in life clearly shining through in print.

Multi-Color Queensland is celebrating its win in the flexo colour process category for a Ministry of Icecream label, a boutique organic mango sorbet bedecked with illustrations of a vintage map and explorer.

Alex Forster, prepress manager with Multi-Color Queensland, says the label was printed using HD Flexo printing plates at 200 lines per inch screen ruling.

He tells Australian Printer, “This latest technology gave us smoother vignettes, sharp detail, intense colours and high contrast. The result was a label quality equal to that usually seen in gravure and offset printing.

“We advised the customer to use a matt laminate to give the label a finish that complemented the design.”

This is not Multi-Color’s first successful rodeo; in 2012 it scored top honours in the flexo colour class for its Lite n’ Easy Roast Chicken Linguine label, and in the booklets category for a Win An Apple iPad brochure.

Malcolm Penn, general manager of Multi-Color Queensland, says passion is a big part of the labeller’s success. He tells Australian Printer, “We run a really nice shop here. We are trying to increase our hall of fame and focus on quality and innovation. It takes time. We had six entries this year, we are happy to win one, and we had two wins the year before – so the consistency is there.”

Also flying the flag for Oz this year in the combination wine and spirits category is NSW outfit Collotype Labels Griffith, for its Wahgunyah shiraz label on behalf of St Leonards winery. Collotype, which specialises in wine label printing, has a keen taste for embellishment; the Wahgunyah label shines with golden touches.

Doubling down the Australian wine win is digital-only firm Ultra Labels Australia – coming out tops in the digital printing wine and spirits class, for Ocean View Estate’s 2012 Luscious Harvest, with quirky modern illustration.

Honourable mentions also go to Wedderburn Labels in the flexo wines/spirits category, for its stained-glass window Mintaro label, and to Labelworld WA in offset colour process, for its Wisemate Ceasar Salad Dressing wraparound label.

The competition was judged by an international jury during Labelexpo 2013, with FINAT (Europe), JFLP (Japan), LATMA (Australia), ABIEA (Brazil), SALMA (New Zealand) and TLMI (North America) taking part.

The Australian winners will be cracking open the champagne at a presentation in April at the LATMA Label Awards and Conference 2014, to be held in Kiama.

 

The 2013 winners:

Class 1: Flexo – Line

• Winner: Pragati Pack (India) Pvt. Ltd, India (FINAT) for security label excise seals country liquor

Class 2: Flexo Line Screen/Tone

• Honorable mention: Bahar Etiket, Turkey (FINAT) for Eyüp Sabri Tuncer Dogal Zeytinyagli El Ve Vücut 250ml

Class 3: Flexo Colour Process

• Joint winner: Multi-Color (QLD), Australia (LATMA ) for Ministry of Icecream
• Joint winner: Admark Visual Imaging, New Zealand (SALMA) for Spiderman Inmould Label (pictured, first in image carousel)
• Honorable mention: Chugoku Seal Printing Co. Ltd, Japan (JFLP) for Olio Extra Vergine di Oliva

Class 4: Flexo Wine/Spirits

• Joint winner: Collotype Labels El Dorado Hills, USA (TLMI) for Jackson-Triggs Proprietor’s Selection Shiraz
• Joint winner: Chugoku Seal Printing Co. Ltd, Japan (JFLP) for KOHAKU
• Honorable mention: Wedderburn Labels, Australia (LATMA) for Mintaro

Class 5: Letterpress Line

• Winner: Sansaisya Co. Ltd, Japan (JFLP) for Serial Number Label
• Class 6: Letterpress Line Screen/Tone
• Honorable mention: SATO Printing Co. Ltd, Japan (JFLP) for FUWARI x KIRARI

Class 7: Letterpress Colour Process

• Winner: SATO Printing Co. Ltd, Japan (JFLP) for Smell of Forest

Class 8: Letterpress Wine/Spirits

• Winner: Shinwa Label Printing Co. Ltd, Japan (JFLP) for Hana* fuwawa

Class 10: Offset Line/Screen

• Honorable mention: Skanem Ltd Liverpool, UK (FINAT) for 5lt Coral Black Velvet – Denmark

Class 11: Offset Colour Process

• Winner: Fuji Mark Co. Ltd, Japan (JFLP) for Barbie Nail Polish Remover (pictured, second in image carousel)
• Honorable mention: Labelworld WA, Australia (LATMA) for Wisemate Caesar Salad Dressing

Class 12: Offset Wine/Spirits

• Winner: Collotype Labels, USA (TLMI) for Farella Malbec 2009 (pictured, third in image carousel)
• Honorable mention: Collotype Labels, Australia (FINAT) for Carnival Love

Class 13: Combination Line

• Winner: Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany (FINAT) for Automotive Security Logistic Label
• Honorable mention: McDowell Label & Screen Printing, USA (TLMI) for Instant Gratification

Class 14: Combination Line & Screen/Tone

• Winner: McDowell Label & Screen Printing, USA (TLMI) for P6 Extreme
• Honorable mention: Smyth/Dow Industries, USA (FINAT) for Victoria’s Secret Luminous Touch

Class 15: Combination Colour Process

• Joint Winner: Shinwa Label Printing Co. Ltd, Japan (JFLP) for Japan Premium MIYABI
• Joint Winner: McDowell Label & Screen Printing, USA (TLMI) for Peace & Harmony
• Honorable mention: Admark Visual Imaging, New Zealand (SALMA) for Air New Zealand Hobbit Plane

Class 16: Combination Wine & Spirits

• Joint Winner: McDowell Label & Screen Printing, USA (TLMI) for Ten High
• Joint Winner: Collotype Labels Griffith, Australia (LATMA) for St Leonards – Wahgunyah
• Joint honorable mention: IPE, Spain (FINAT) for Planas Albareda Pure and Careful craftsmanship
• Joint honorable mention: Kansai Takara Printing Co. Ltd, Japan (JFLP) for Las Vegas Souvenir Wine
• Joint honorable mention: Panprint Labels, New Zealand (SALMA) for BE Living Lands Series

Class 17: Digital Printing

• Winner: TAKARA PAC Ltd, Japan (JFLP) for Sakuracha

Class 18: Digital Printing Wine & Spirits

• Joint winner: Collotype Labels, USA (TLMI) for Wren Hop Vineyards Pinot Noir 2011
• Joint winner: Ultra Labels, Australia (LATMA) for Ocean View Estate 2012 Luscious Harvest

Class 19: Screen Printing

• Winner: Kolibri Labels, Netherlands (FINAT) for A Nice Liqueur

Class 21: Booklets & Coupon Labels

• Winner: SATO Printing Co. Ltd, Japan (JFLP)
• Honorable mention: Skanem Poznan, Poland (FINAT) for Oriflame 19640 Antiperspirant Booklet

Class 22: Innovation

• Joint winner: Stratus Packaging, France (FINAT) for IXcode for banks
• Joint winner: Azagami Seal Printing Co. Ltd, Japan (JFLP) for Kaleidoscope

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