2024 Winners
Supreme Award Winner
Red Mill Rum
~ LABELS - SPECIALIST EMBELLISHMENTS
Category: LABELS - SPECIALIST EMBELLISHMENTS
Printed By: MCC Albany
Entered By:
MCC Albany
Judges Comments:
A unique design concept, which featured two beautifully-enhanced sheets of stock run simultaneously with 23 precise dieline cutouts apiece removed across a print run of 6500, this job presented significant technical challenges. Whereas other label converters turned down the job due to its high level of complexity, MCC Albany stepped up to deliver a beautiful piece of print. The end result was quite extraordinary and fully deserving of the 2024 Pride In Print Supreme Award.
Category Winners
The Post Weekend Te Upoko O Te Ika - December 9, 2023
PUBLICATIONS - NEWSPAPERS
Printed By: Stuff Limited - Wellington
Entered By: Stuff Limited - Wellington
Judges Comments:
Boasting strong colour depth and almost faultless registration, this was a very-well printed newspaper. Such high quality, delivering vibrant colours, was achieved despite the very short lead time and presses running at speeds of 40,000 copies per hour.
Elements
PROMOTIONAL PRINT
Printed By: easy2C Solutions for Business
Entered By: easy2C Solutions For Business
Judges Comments:
An aesthetically-stunning calendar, this job expertly combined sharp printing of vibrant colours, perfectly-registered spot UV and exemplary finishing. An outstanding print and production job – we could find no fault with it.
Riddet Institute Annual Report
BUSINESS PRINT
Printed By: Blue Star Wellington
Entered By: Blue Star Wellington
Judges Comments:
Outstanding printing and finishing in this publication complemented a superb design. Folios were in a near perfect postion throughout and binding was faultless – one of the best offset-printed annual reports seen in a long time.
1839 Honey Cartons
PAPER & BOARD PACKAGING
Printed By: Blue Star Auckland Print & Packaging - Constellation
Entered By: Blue Star Auckland Print & Packaging - Constellation
Judges Comments:
Well executed in every aspect, this carton features beautiful fine detail in foiling and embossing, with excellent diecutting, creasing, folding and overall alignment. We could find no issues with it at all, it is a stunning job.
Joyhana Whipping Cream Sleeve
FLEXIBLE PACKAGING (Joint Winner)
Printed By: Gravure Packaging
Entered By: Gravure Packaging
Judges Comments:
Produced to highest global standards and a notable export-success story, this shrink sleeve has seamlessly combined spot and process techniques to deliver realistic imagery. Materials used are also fully compatible with future plans for the bottle to become full-circle, recyclable.
Premiere Beehive NZ Ltd
FLEXIBLE PACKAGING (Joint Winner)
Printed By: Sealed Air - Hamilton
Entered By: Sealed Air - Hamilton
Judges Comments:
New split-screening technology was mastered in this superb recreation of an existing printed label. The process also reduced ink and energy consumption and delivered overall cost savings, with materials used in future being 100% recyclable in a single waste stream.
Red Mill Rum
LABELS
Printed By: MCC Albany
Entered By: MCC Albany
Judges Comments:
A unique design concept, featuring two sheets of stock requiring 23 dieline cut-outs apiece in a print run of 6500, this label presented significant technical challenges. Also featuring beautiful enhancements, the end result was quite extraordinary.
PH7 Vehicle Wrap
SIGN & DISPLAY
Printed By: Admark Visual Imaging Ltd
Entered By: Admark Visual Imaging Ltd
Judges Comments:
Outstanding print has delivered very clean and crisp imagery enhanced by faultless lamination – the “high-vis” orange literally jumps off this vehicle wrap. All components colour-match and align perfectly. An incredible result for a hard-to-achieve job.
Pizza Base Tower
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Printed By: APC Innovate
Entered By: APC Innovate
Judges Comments:
Incredibly well constructed and robust, particularly considering the number of elements, this display stand has been very well thought through and executed. All elements match perfectly, creating a superbly-finished product with no areas of imperfection.
Scotts Osmocote Indoor Plants 25L
INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT & CREATIVITY
Printed By: Sealed Air - Hamilton
Entered By: Sealed Air - Hamilton
Judges Comments:
Described as a “game changer”, this 100% recyclable potting mix bag has won overseas printing business for NZ Inc, and done so while substantially-reducing carbon footprint and delivering an excellent print standard using challenging light-fast inks.
Premium Stationery Sets by The Armarie Room
PRINT FINISHING
Printed By: The Armarie Room
Entered By: The Armarie Room
Judges Comments:
Expert debossing, creasing, trimming and diecutting were among finishing processes demonstrated in this double stationery set. With very consistent production qualities throughout both sets, this was an overall beautiful, very-well-finished job.
Rose Gold
SPECIALTY PRODUCTS
Printed By: Windmill Press
Entered By: Windmill Press
Judges Comments:
A clear winner in its Category, this wedding invitation set is a superb example of letterpress printing. The simple quality of the process, enhanced by a combination of elements all in perfect alignment, has transformed a really good design into a stunningly-elegant job.
Premium Stationery Sets by The Armarie Room
PRINT INDUSTRY PROMOTION
Printed By: The Armarie Room
Entered By: The Armarie Room
Judges Comments:
Incorporating a range of old and new processes and techniques delivered millimetre perfect, this double stationery set highlighted technical accuracy, supreme craftmanship and in-depth understanding of materials. The outcome is a magnificent, contemporary print.
Process Winners
Riddet Institute Annual Report
SHEETFED OFFSET
Printed By: Blue Star Wellington
Entered By: Blue Star Wellington
Judges Comments:
Achieving superb consistency in registration and colour – with rich blacks standing out on an uncoated stock, complemented by a spot UV providing an eye-catching cover finish – this is one of the most notable offset-printed annual reports seen in some time.
Joyhana Whipping Cream Sleeve
GRAVURE
Printed By: Gravure Packaging Limited
Entered By: Gravure Packaging Limited
Judges Comments:
Featuring an extremely fine-tone black to deliver a realistic image of cream, spot-colour blues joined by a clean and faultless vignette and process imagery of photographic quality, this mass-produced export shrink sleeve was deemed a faultless “Kiwi can-do” job.
Essence, October 2023
WEB OFFSET COLDSET
Printed By: Allied Press
Entered By: Allied Press
Judges Comments:
A crisp, clean and great-looking publication, this well-crafted job has excelled in communicating attractive and engaging content to consumers, while delivering a key income stream for the newsprint industry.
Premiere Beehive NZ Ltd
FLEXOGRAPHIC
Printed By: Sealed Air - Hamilton
Entered By: Sealed Air - Hamilton
Judges Comments:
Excellent detail in process colour imagery and great density in spot colours was demonstrated in this label. Requiring the navigation of new split-screening technology and other technical challenges, the production also featured various carbon-reducing elements.
Evil Twins
SCREEN
Printed By: The Print Room
Entered By: The Print Room
Judges Comments:
Combining subtle colour and height reactions in the use of four Puff inks – which were printed on top of each other when still wet on a flexible substrate – has delivered an excellent and deliberately-distorted 3D effect. An overall perfectly-produced job.
Wellington Places Book
DIGITAL
Printed By: Wakefields Digital
Entered By: Wakefields Digital
Judges Comments:
A rare example of a toner ink-printed book delivering a stunning and beautiful result, this book achieved impressively-crisp images, rich colours and flawless delivery of the repeated and very-effective black backgrounds. A stunning digital print.
Cat Gallery
INKJET
Printed By: Caxton
Entered By: Caxton
Judges Comments:
An amazing inkjet reproduction, this job was delivered with such authenticity that most judges thought the imagery had been produced on a real wool substrate – not realising photographs of the original wool artwork had in fact been ever-so-precisely printed onto Photo Rag stock.
Premium Stationery Sets by The Armarie Room
LETTERPRESS
Printed By: The Armarie Room
Entered By: The Armarie Room
Judges Comments:
Repeatedly “asking for trouble”, given the number of technical challenges presented by the job’s fine details within tiny margins, this double stationery set delivered a faultless representation of process enhanced by a range of embellishing and finishing features.
Highly Commended & Gold Winning Work
2024 Gold & Highly Commended
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