Proud Roland users Prints Alive and Mercury Creative, take out several awards at the recent NSW and SA 2012 PICA events.
Leading wide format manufacturer Roland DG Australia is proud to announce a number of awards won by Roland Users at the 2012 PICA (Printing Industries Craftsmanship Awards) events.
The Printing Industries Craftsmanship Awards, known as PICA, celebrate excellence in the print, packaging, and visual communication industry, and recognise the special efforts of printers by awarding their best work. Gold award winners go on to the annual National Print Awards.
Warren with the VS-640 and winning banner
Prints Alive from South Australia, were rewarded with a Gold in Wide Format Printing, for an impressive pull up banner produced on their Roland VersaCAMM VS-640 printer cutter.
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| Sam Lane with his Roland DG VS-640 |
One thing that sets Prints Alive apart from its competitors is that it custom profiles all medias. "We pride ourselves on exacting colour - it is an ethic that our customers appreciate," Managing Director, Warren Darker commented. "When the time came for our small two-person business to expand its offering into outdoor signage, the Roland VS-640 was the pick of printers.''
After carefully profiling the HVG media the Roland VS-640 was able to produce an accurate and impressive result for the winning banner. "There were a lot of grey tones within the image around the metallic parts of the car, as well as a background which needed to be free of colour casts and show off the beautiful sharpness and contrast of the image,'' said Warren.
Warren continued, "We were so pleased with the result, so we entered the banner into the PICA awards for South Australia and came up trumps!"
Another winner, this time at the NSW PICA event, was Mercury Creative, an independent, integrated print and design company located in Pymble, NSW. Mercury Creative took out a number of awards on the night including Gold and Silver in the Wide Format category, and Bronze in both the Multiple Piece category and Small Business category.
Sam from Mercury Creative with the VS-640
"For a small business we had huge success," said Sam Lane, Print Director at Mercury Creative. "Obviously a large part of this is due to the machinery used to print our winning entries."
Both Gold and Silver awards were printed on their Roland XJ-640 wide format printer and the Bronze awards utilised a number of Roland devices including their new VS-640 printer cutter.
"In short, we wanted to thank Roland DG for providing such awesome machines," said Sam.
Roland DG Sales Director John Wall, commended the winners, "Congratulations to Prints Alive, Mercury Creative and all other PICA winners. It is great to see the industry rewarding high quality work and we are proud to see that Roland devices are enabling users to achieve outstanding results."
Prints Alive and Mercury Creative will now go on to the National Print Awards to be held in 2013.
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