2025 Winners
Supreme Award Winner
Kaya and Brian Wedding Invite Suite
~ Specialty Products - Personal Stationery / Wedding Stationery
Category: Specialty Products - Personal Stationery / Wedding Stationery
Printed By: Studio Q / Laserfoil
Entered By:
Studio Q / Laserfoil
Judges Comments:
Wow, this beautiful job is more than a wee bit different! With huge technical difficulty across four different pieces of artwork, this stunningly-designed invite suite combined digital and letterpress printing, light debossing, diecuts, foiling, hand-stitching and much more! Its customised detail additionally involved the incorporation of actual vintage American stamps, a personalised seal, a precisely-bowed ribbon and hand-mixed Pantone colours on bespoke stock.
Category Winners
One NZ Advent Calendar
INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT & CREATIVITY
Printed By: Blue Star Auckland Display & Distribution
Entered By: Blue Star Auckland Display & Distribution
Judges Comments:
A lot of thought went into the design and production of this life-sized, reusable advent calendar. It is very sturdy, all of the doors and creases are clean and seamless, the digital print is punchy and the sustainability focus also gains top marks.
Panadol Liquid Caps
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Printed By: Blue Star Auckland Display & Distribution
Entered By: Blue Star Auckland Display & Distribution
Judges Comments:
With a handful of top-quality entries in this closely-contested Category, this beautifully-designed, printed and assembled presentation box won out for the additional interactivity which lifted up the product upon opening. As good a job in this Category as you’ll ever see.
Art of Michelle Bellamy
PROMOTIONAL PRINT
Printed By: easy2C Calendars and Promotional Products
Entered By: easy2C Calendars and Promotional Products
Judges Comments:
Combining a slightly-older offset press with digital overprinting, this calendar was an excellent representation of prepress, registration and binding. Vibrantly-faultless on every page, the end result was an amazing reproduction of beautiful hand-painted, epic New Zealand scenery.
Quack A Duck Peking Spiced Whole Duck
FLEXIBLE PACKAGING
Printed By: Sealed Air Hamilton
Entered By: Sealed Air Hamilton
Judges Comments:
A great design has been brought to life in execution of a print process not normally associated with top-of-the-line reproduction. Colours were solid, even achieving the semblance of a metallic ink in areas, with great contrast ensuring the food dish reproduced actually looks real.
Whittaker’s Dark Ghana 50g Chunk
PACKAGING - OTHER MATERIALS
Printed By: Lamprint Packaging Holdings Ltd
Entered By: Lamprint Packaging Holdings Ltd
Judges Comments:
While beautifully serving the customer’s focus on perfect replication of its distinctive gold brand, this packaging made no compromise on the correspondingly-challenging reproduction of type or imagery. Every aspect is clean and strong – a beautiful, one-out-of-the box job.
The Weekend Sun Issue 1233
PUBLICATIONS - NEWSPAPERS
Printed By: NZME Ellerslie Print
Entered By: NZME Ellerslie Print
Judges Comments:
Very-well printed, clean and with no marks. When jobs like this go on the press, they do not come off – there is no print-and-go-again – and these guys get it right, every week from prepress right through to production for a well-supported, community newspaper.
APC 2024 Christmas Wine Box
PRINT INDUSTRY PROMOTION
Printed By: APC Innovate Limited
Entered By: APC Innovate Limited
Judges Comments:
A ten-out-of-ten for concept, this well-presented gift box features a design that enables it to be repurposed for the socially-engaging cornhole game. A perfect execution of a beautifully-aesthetic design in combination with practical functionality.
Snackachangi Presenter/PR Box
PAPER & BOARD PACKAGING
Printed By: APC Innovate Limited
Entered By: APC Innovate Limited
Judges Comments:
A really sturdy design, this great-looking presentation box has been very well made. The cutting and assembly is perfect, the tear tab is tidy, the hinging is beautiful, all images line up spot on and the print speaks for itself.
Te Ara Hohou Rongo | The Path to Reconciliation
PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS
Printed By: Wakefields Digital
Entered By: Wakefields Digital
Judges Comments:
A lovely combination of new and old in print techniques – a machine-made case, but with the rest being painstakingly put together by hand – this is one of those jobs that just hits you. It has that wow factor and we just could not find a fault.
Kaya and Brian Wedding Invite Suite
SPECIALTY PRODUCTS
Printed By: Studio Q / Laserfoil
Entered By: Laserfoil
Judges Comments:
A job full of technical difficulty across four different pieces of artwork, this invite suite combined digital and letterpress printing, light debossing, diecuts, foiling, hand-stitching and more! Everything was done perfectly for another overseas customer choosing Kiwi made.
Fresh n Fruity Greek Raspberry 1kg Yoghurt
LABELS
Entered By: Logan Print
Judges Comments:
One of only a few sheetfed offset jobs in a highly contested Category, this in-mould label featured clean print, with really nice ink tones and faultless registration across a massive 400,000 print run. Everything was executed perfectly and none of us could find a fault.
Te Ara Hohou Rongo | The Path to Reconciliation
PRINT FINISHING
Printed By: Wakefields Digital
Entered By: Wakefields Digital
Judges Comments:
Everything about it on the finishing side was just superb. There were perfect line ups and it was very clever how the end pages were produced with a special perforation to keep the strain off the binding when it is opened, given its use in a public place.
Business Awards - Sustainability
SUSTAINABILITY
Printed By:
Entered By: Sealed Air Hamilton
Judges Comments:
The combination of the sustainability benefits achieved and the repatriation of print into New Zealand for this iconic Kiwi product made this a stand-out entry in the Business Awards category.
Mercury - Integrated Report 2024
BUSINESS PRINT
Printed By: Blue Star Auckland Print & Packaging - Collard
Entered By: Blue Star Auckland Print & Packaging - Collard
Judges Comments:
Printed on a challenging recycled paper with an older press, this annual report nonetheless features a vibrant yellow that has been reproduced consistently throughout. With all line ups also perfect, we basically could not find a fault – it is just a beautiful job
Hydroflow Rainbird FSDU
SIGN & DISPLAY
Printed By: ABC Original Print
Entered By: ABC Original Print
Judges Comments:
A very-well-designed and stable unit, this display stand features a variety of consumer products that can be readily removed and easily returned to well-made cutouts. Great attention to detail has been shown in what is both a very attractive and functional display.
Process Winners
The Historic Architecture in Korea
Printed By: Brebner Print
Entered By: Brebner Print
Judges Comments:
A truly-remarkable example of pushing the boundaries of print technology. Even under magnification with an eyeglass, the dot formation is imperceptible, revealing only heightened definition. Undeniably, an amazing feat of printing craftsmanship.
The Waikato Times Your Weekend 12 October 2024
Printed By: Stuff - Wellington
Entered By: Stuff - Wellington
Judges Comments:
Produced at high speed on one of the largest presses in the country, this newspaper reflected a high level of process skill set through prepress and print. In newsprint, you get some jobs that just come up super well – this was one of them!
Super Liquor
Printed By: Webstar
Entered By: Webstar
Judges Comments:
Folded perfectly, glued exceptionally, all line ups were spot on, registered faultlessly and trimmed square. For a web offset press, running as fast as it does, to have such high quality in all of those aspects while also delivering vibrant colours is absolutely amazing.
Boring Oat Milk Barista
Printed By: Gravure Packaging
Entered By: Gravure Packaging
Judges Comments:
A high level of thought clearly went into achieving what is a visually-stunning outcome with amazing ink layup. Techniques to deliver a UV eyemark, printing of two different colours and varnish were executed masterfully to make this entry stand out from all others in the Category.
Quack A Duck Peking Spiced Whole Duck
Printed By: Sealed Air - Hamilton
Entered By: Sealed Air - Hamilton
Judges Comments:
A great design has been brought to life in execution of a print process not normally associated with top-of-the-line reproduction. Colours were solid, even achieving the semblance of a metallic ink in areas, with great contrast ensuring the food dish reproduced actually looks real.
Welcome to My Brain Card Game
Printed By: Eamar Innovative Solutions
Entered By: Eamar Innovative Solutions
Judges Comments:
It was beyond incredible that such vibrant colours were achieved with textured stock on what could be considered an entry-level machine. Complemented by a high level of finishing and practical production choices, this is such a beautiful job.
Casa de Campo
Printed By: Windmill Press
Entered By: Windmill Press
Judges Comments:
Including challenging but beautiful features such as wax seals, a metal charm and cotton thread binding, the highest production values were achieved in deboss, foiling and finishing. This invite was just amazing!
Zhu Ohmu x Kate Sylvester Hemp Bag
Printed By: Colour Evolution Ltd
Entered By: Colour Evolution Ltd
Judges Comments:
An outstanding result on material that is coarse, uneven and therefore notoriously hard to print. There is so much detail, including perfectly-straight lines. Extreme technical mastery has been demonstrated to deliver a truly beautiful print job.
Pressed Flowers
Printed By: Caxton
Entered By: Caxton
Judges Comments:
A fine example of high-quality ink jet printing, utilising best-in-class equipment, coupled with a great choice in complementary media. This culminated in a beautiful, detailed and highly-realistic print of an evocative image of pressed flowers.
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