HP Print Excellence Awards 2012 winners announced

HP Print Excellence Awards recognise creative and innovative materials produced on HP digital systems.

Congratulations to our own Next Printing and Dpod Ltd.

HP will present the awards to winners at a celebratory evening in their honour in Düsseldorf on 3 May. First place winners from Asia Pacific are listed below. – HP today announced the winners of the HP Print Excellence Awards, a competition to recognise the best examples of creativity and print quality produced across HP’s digital portfolio.
 
The competition recognises print excellence in 21 categories across Commercial Print, Sign and Display, and Labels and Packaging applications. Submissions were open to users of HP Indigo, Inkjet Web Press, Scitex and Designjet systems. The competition attracted entries from 364 customers from 47 countries.

ANZ Winners
This year’s competition had a strong showing from Asia Pacific - with over 290 entries across all award categories. This represents the highest number from a single region.
 
Next Printing in Sydney, the first company to install an HP Scitex FB7500 in that state, won in the Retail POP/POS category.
DPOD in Auckland, also an HP Scitex FB7500 user, took out first prize in the Innovative Application category.

Favourable judgements
“It was exciting to see the way print service providers and their customers were able to push the envelope with the HP print technologies, especially the Indigo,” said judge David Zwang. “Offset print has always been the benchmark that people use to set their expectation for quality print. There is no doubt in my mind that the Indigo print entries we saw not only met that level, but exceeded it.”

“It was my honour to participate as a judge,” said Yolanda Simonsis. “I believe the ’tipping point’ for digital in the label and packaging industries will arrive sooner than others anticipated. Digital easily executes complex designs with perfectly registered type so fine you need a loupe to read it, vignettes so subtle and skin tones so lifelike that it now certainly surpasses analogue technologies that struggle to replicate effectively without waste.“

“The HP Print Excellent Awards concentrate on innovation,” said judge Sophie Matthews-Paul. “However, they also look at environmentally responsible printing. We considered how entrants demonstrated creativity and skill. Seeing how the criteria were interpreted in the submissions from different parts of the world was very interesting.”

 Awards were categorised by device category and by application type. The judges said that after lengthy discussions, the decisions on all winners were unanimous.

“Service providers across Asia Pacific clinched a total of 18 awards this year, of which 7 are first place awards. This clearly reflects the immense creativity and quality we are seeing from PSPs in the region,” said Andrew Ng, Marketing Manager, Graphic Solutions Business, HP Asia Pacific and Japan.

“Receiving so many submissions across the various categories not only demonstrates the spread of digital printing globally, but also service providers’ confidence in our technologies and innovations to deliver a wide range of applications to their customers,” continued Andrew.

HP will present the awards to winners at a celebratory evening in their honour in Düsseldorf on 3 May. First place winners from Asia Pacific are listed below. The full list of winners can be seen here.

Commercial Print applications first place winners:

Labels and Packaging first place winners:

Sign & Display first place winners:

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