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Industrial Digital Printer of the Year: Go Inspire Solutions
Go Inspire got the balance right to win for the first time a category in which data handling, variables, text and images are as important as the overall quality of the printed product.
Out-of-home Printer of the Year: VGL
VGL put the ‘ooh!’ into OOH print with five Mamma Mia bus wraps with rainbow glitter vinyl that give a shimmering illusion of movement when hit by light. A Sky building wrap meanwhile featured giant...
Bespoke Magazine Printer of the Year: Park Communications
Beauty Papers, a photography-led magazine on the culture of make-up and beauty, helped Park Communications win this category.
Bespoke Digital Printer of the Year: Screaming Colour
Judges were looking for short-run, high-value brochures, packaging and presentation packs. They found “a standard across the whole category that was stunning, but this entry in particular was...
Catalogue Printer of the Year: Precision Colour Printing
Although high-quality printing was essential for this category, judges also took into account the production constraints often imposed in catalogue work. However, that wasn’t strictly necessary for...
Point-of-purchase Printer of the Year: Imprint Group part of Pureprint Group
White Stuff was the right stuff for last year’s highly commended entrant. The Newcastle-headquartered printer created a ’Run Wild’ window campaign for the fashion chain of 120 shops.
FMCG Packaging Printer of the Year: Curtis Packaging
Typical FMCG packaging has a short shelf-life but fast turnarounds, tricky consistency demands and runs that can be achingly long. Curtis Packaging in Redhill surmounted them all with what one judge...
Social Stationery Printer of the Year: The Sherwood Group
Judges wanted consistent print, finishing and repro, and offered the warmest greetings to Sherwood’s stationery – which delivered the goods this year.
Report & Accounts Printer of the Year: Empress Litho
“Who would have thought accountants would appreciate such beautifully presented print?” asked the judges after being comprehensively wowed by the quality and attention to detail displayed in the...
Company of the Year: ProCo
This was the year ProCo changed its business model – and won PrintWeek’s most coveted awards category as a result.
SME of the Year: CS Labels
CS Labels has enjoyed a fast ride this year. A £3.25m investment programme announced in early spring included the purchase of a purpose-built 1,850sqm factory and a raft of new equipment.
Customer Services Team of the Year: Impress Print Services
The customer is king, but Impress wears the crown. Not only has the company, based in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, restructured and appointed a customer-service manager and assurance champion, it has...
Trainee of the Year: Stephen Dando, Dayfold
Ten minutes after handing his CV in at its base in Dorset, and Dayfold Print was in touch. Two years later PrintWeek Awards judges are in touch. Stephen started on the cylinder, cutting and creasing,...
Marketing Campaign of the Year: Gemini Print Group
“That’s what marketing is all about,” reckoned the judges. “Fantastic ROI that delivers on the brief.” The Shoreham-by-Sea company wanted to increase the digital printing side of its business by £1m...
Environmental Company of the Year: Nationwide Print
Much changes in this ever-evolving category and Nationwide Print, in St Austell, Cornwall, is pioneering many of those changes. Nationwide has gone from powering its presses with renewable energy and...