Industrial Digital Printer of the Year 2015: Gask & Hawley

19 October 2015

Quality Awards

Gask & Hawley prints and distributes more than 3.8 million bespoke leaflets every three weeks in various formats for one of its clients. The judges were looking for stunning examples of long-run targeted messaging where data handling and the number of variables are as critical as the quality of the printed product.

www.gaskandhawley.com 0161 869 5880

Manchester-based Gask & Hawley wrote the front-end software to enable all 1,400 store owners to change their panels, from customer-approved templates, and upload artwork and images. Meanwhile the company processed the data for printing at up to 40,000 copies per hour and personalisation before distribution to stores, Newshare and Royal Mail. “Impressive use of personalisation with variable imagery and content on a large scale,” was the judges’ verdict.

Highly commended

Amberley Adhesive Labels

www.amberley.net 01258 455772

Amberley’s project for cosmetics client Get Fresh did away with the conventional printed label in favour of a ‘plateless’ peel-and-read label suiting the digital process – simply changing a digital file saved time and money. Next the company in Blandford, Dorset, produced 6 million labels for an Irn Bru campaign with 57 tartan designs throwing up logistics challenges for a technology usually used to produce a few hundred metres. “Beautiful printing throughout,” said the judges.

Finalists

Amberley Adhesive Labels

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Eclipse

Gask & Hawley

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