2022 Winners
Supreme Award Winner
'Touchy Feely'
~ Business Print
Category: Business Print
Printed By: Logick Print & Graphics
Entered By:
Logick Print & Graphics Ltd
Judges Comments:
This is a job that draws the same comment of ‘fantastic’ from everyone who looks at it. The combined elements of Prepress - involving PDF proof plates, foil blocks and emboss blocks, Production - a print offset mix of four-colour process, PMS spot colours, matt seal, hot foil stamping, embossing and blind debossing throughout, and Finishing - involving cover creasing, job hand-assembly and glued in house,.are all faultless/seamless. There are foils, bright inks, perforating stamp work, binding, creasing and assembly. The whole thing is technically superb, sharp and beautiful.
Category Winners
Freyas Gluten Free Mixed Seed Soft Wraps
Flexible Packaging
Printed By: Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific - Christchurch
Entered By: Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific - Christchurch
Judges Comments:
The complexities of this job from the nine colour print through to the pouch conversion, with its realistic imagery made this a stand-out winner for the Category.
Garnier Fructis Hair Food Presentation Box
Structural Design Packaging
Printed By: ABC Original Print, Auckland
Entered By: ABC Original Print, Auckland
Judges Comments:
Structurally sound, very strong and very useable. A lot of work has gone into it from a design point of view, such as the easily-removed insert. A well diecut and formed box, cleverly thought out for its gift package purpose
Yesterday Home
Print Finishing
Printed By: Wakefields Digital
Entered By: Wakefields Digital
Judges Comments:
This photography book has used a range of substrates, which have been beautifully bound and finished, including a creative style of binding with exposed sewing. With great lie-down-ability, it achieves an excellent result as a coffee table book.
Holland Road Wild Ginseng 500ml Gin
Labels
Printed By: Kiwi Labels
Entered By: Kiwi Labels
Judges Comments:
A well-executed, multi-pass job. Great use of embossing, Lumafin foil, paper stock and effective, detailed design, to achieve a great hologram effect. Excellence of craft.
BK Flamin Good Deals
Sign & Display
Printed By: Admark Visual Imaging
Entered By: Admark Visual Imaging
Judges Comments:
A great example of what is becoming somewhat of a dying art with the advent of digital screen. Excellent colour gamut and depth, very clean and crisp print and lamination, and not a blemish on it – the flame effect jumps right out at you.
'Touchy Feely'
Business Print
Printed By: Logick Print & Graphics Ltd
Entered By: Logick Print & Graphics Ltd
Judges Comments:
From a finishing point of view, there are not many jobs that encompass so many different embellishments, all in the one place, and they get them all completely right throughout.
Waitoa Applewood Smoked Chicken
Industry Development & Creativity
Printed By: Sealed Air, Hamilton
Entered By: Sealed Air, Hamilton
Judges Comments:
A clean and very well-executed print, this flexographic job has innovatively used a 70% post-consumer recycled PET substrate that has FDA food compliance, with the final product achieving 91% total recycled content.
Masterclass Recipe Cards
Promotional Print
Printed By: 5Digital
Entered By: 5Digital
Judges Comments:
Just gorgeous. The use of the stock, with a velvety feel, and beautiful digital gold foil on a black background that was printed perfectly. Such an upper-class-feeling job, perfect for its function as a cocktail menu.
Rare And Unrivalled Beauty
Publications - Newspaper
Printed By: Horton Media
Entered By: Horton Media
Judges Comments:
A perfect job delivered from a less than perfect press on a challenging substrate. Perfect registration and a crisp, clean depth resulting in a superb job.
Nadia Autumn - Issue 2 - 2021
Publications
Printed By: Ovato NZ
Entered By: Ovato
Judges Comments:
Exceptional colours throughout and the quality was so good that judges actually thought it was a sheetfed job instead of coming off a web offset press, printing at 60,000 copies an hour.
A Hidden World (Kākāpō)
Specialty Products
Printed By: Picaflor Fine Art Printing Limited
Entered By: Picaflor Fine Art Printing Ltd, Wellington
Judges Comments:
This ten-colour fine art print has spectacularly blended lovely photography with a drawn background. The detailed definition, depth and clarity of the imagery produced on an ideal choice of paper stock has achieved a stunning result.
Pure Mama Product Packaging
Paper & Board Packaging
Printed By: Logick Print & Graphics Ltd
Entered By: Logick Print & Graphics Ltd
Judges Comments:
Excellent detailing, with elements such as foiling, embossing and printing on foil. It is quite rare to see a set of three product boxes delivered with no faults. The quality of the work stood out immediately.
Techspan Peacock Wall Art
Print Industry Promotion
Printed By: Techspan, Auckland
Entered By: Techspan, Auckland
Judges Comments:
A number of highly-technical and demanding processes have been perfectly combined to produce an excellent visual result. The detail is spectacular and leaves an incredible first impression – a masterpiece demonstration of process.
Sustainability
Business Awards
Printed By:
Entered By: Soar Communications Group
Judges Comments:
The judges commented on Soar’s long-standing commitment to sustainability, the breadth of the actions taken across the business to achieve their goals and the positive outcomes this has had for the company, their customers and the environment.
Process Winners
Koa Brochure
Digital ~
Letterpress
Printed By: Blue Star Constellation
Entered By: Blue Star Constellation
Judges Comments:
An absolutely stunning book, impossible to fault. Good clean print and consistent colour throughout, with nice, clean embossing and excellent binding and trimming. A prime example of how to make an elegant, excellent digitally-printed book.
Freyas Gluten Free Mixed Seed Soft Wraps
Flexographic ~
Flexographic
Printed By: Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific - Christchurch
Entered By: Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific - Christchurch
Judges Comments:
Involving the reverse-printing of nine colours while simultaneously surface-printing an overgloss and then laminating and pouch-converting, this high-complexity job produced crisp print and bright imagery to achieve a very realistic food picture.
Rare And Unrivalled Beauty
Web Offset ~
Coldset
Printed By: Horton Media
Entered By: Horton Media
Judges Comments:
Great contrast and crisp, clean depth – a superb job. It is a huge challenge to achieve perfect registration with no blemishes using the particular press and substrate involved in this job, and it has been delivered perfectly
Whitcoulls Recommends
Web Offset ~
Heatset
Printed By: Ovato NZ
Entered By: Ovato NZ
Judges Comments:
The general pressmanship and finishing is exceptional, featuring even colour density and registration throughout. Added to this, the quality of finish – trimming, glueline and lack of marking – sets this product apart.
Special Edition 2022 Calendar
Letterpress ~
Offset
Printed By: Logick Print & Graphics Ltd
Entered By: Logick Print & Graphics Ltd
Judges Comments:
A clever design delivered over three embossing passes and five different coloured foils laid down in perfect register. An outstanding and eye-catching holographic result.
SPC ProVital
Gravure ~
Gravure
Printed By: Gravure Packaging Ltd
Entered By: Gravure Packaging Ltd
Judges Comments:
Pushing the web press to its extreme limits, this eight-colour and reverse-printed job was clean, bright and sharp, achieving real-life colour across a heavy saturation of imagery.
Moana Annual Report
Sheetfed ~
Offset
Printed By: Blue Star Collard
Entered By: Blue Star Collard
Judges Comments:
The print is faultless. The special colour is smooth, perfectly consistent and spotless. The cover special effects were also executed flawlessly and great binding quality finished it off.
Wanaka Island
Screen ~
Screen Print
Printed By: Reaction Print
Entered By: Reaction Print
Judges Comments:
Printed by a one-colour press on a highly-absorbent paper stock, this seven-colour artwork recreation has combined solid colours, clean design and spot-on registration in an excellent example of process.
Highly Commended & Gold Winning Work
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2022 Gold & Highly Commended
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