Newstyle edges out Finsbury Green at South Australia PICAs

Newstyle Printing has sprung a PICAs surprise by finishing ahead of perennial powerhouse Finsbury Green.

The 75-staff Adelaide firm was the leading performer at the South Australia & Northern Territory awards with five gold medals and the Media Super Excellence in Print Award.

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Finsbury Green followed on from last year's haul of eight golds with another four and the Fujifilm & Fuji Xerox Excellence in Digital Print Award.

Newstyle won two gold medals in 2012, four in 2011 and five in 2010. Its best result came in 2009, when it took home seven gold medals and the Heidelberg Excellence in Craft Award, said general manager Kym Burns.

"We've put some good people in good places and the results have appeared," he told ProPrint.

"People like using us. They know we can hit the deadlines with good quality and that's what it's all about. People can really trust us. There's no dramas using us and we're stress-free people to work with."

Burns said Newstyle was poised to bring all its finishing in-house – a second-hand Wohlenberg burstbinder is due to be installed in December after a Bagel laminator was added about six months ago.

"Apart from helping with the bottom line, you also get a better grasp on what's going on and can maintain tight controls," he said.

Newstyle's main production machine is a 10-colour Komori Lithrone perfector, said Burns.

Meanwhile, Lane Print & Post also performed strongly at the PICAs with three gold medals. Five companies each won two golds: Label Partners, Collotype Labels Adelaide, Custom Cartons, Openbook Howden Design & Print and Terry Howe Printing.

There were also 13 single winners: Arte Grafica Printing, Bowden Group, Cadillac Printing, Cutler Innovative Print Solutions, Detmold Packaging, Digiwedoo, Express Colour Printing, Kwik Kopy Norwood, Multi-Color SA, Rodney Robertson & Associates, Rural Press Printing Murray Bridge, Visualcom and West Press.

Openbook Howden took home the EML Excellence in Craftsmanship Award and Printak claimed the Zero Waste SA Award, while Darius Kooth from Print Graphic Displays won the Media Super-LIA Future Leader Award.

 

WINNERS LIST

One, two or three colour printing

Finsbury Green

Commercial posters, showcards, card constructions & mobiles

Lane Print & Post and Newstyle Printing

Leaflets

Express Colour Printing

Presentation folders

Bowden Group

Booklets, catalogues & magazines – saddlestitched

Terry Howe Printing

Booklets, catalogues & magazines – non-saddlestitched

Finsbury Green

Annual reports or prospectus

Finsbury Green

Calendars

Arte Grafica Printing

Stationery

Lane Print & Post

Postcards & greeting cards

Newstyle Printing

Limited editions

Openbook Howden Design & Print

Book printing – case-bound

Openbook Howden Design & Print

Book printing – limp-bound

Newstyle Printing

Book printing – digital

Finsbury Green

Multi-piece productions & campaigns

Newstyle Printing

Impact, sensory or direct mail

Kwik Kopy Norwood and West Press

Packaging, folding cartons & boxes

Custom Cartons

Packaging – other

No winner

Labels – offset

Collotype Labels Adelaide x 2

Labels – any process other than offset

Label Partners

Flexographic printing

Detmold Packaging and Label Partners

Screen printing

Cutler Innovative Print Solutions

Web offset printing – heatset

Cadillac Printing

Web offset printing – coldset

Rural Press Printing, Murray Bridge

Digital printing – inkjet

Rodney Robertson & Associates

Digital printing – non-inkjet

Digiwedoo and Multi-Color SA

Wide-format printing

Visualcom

Embellishment

Lane Print & Post

Self-promotion

Custom Cartons

Innovation

Newstyle Printing

Small printing business

Terry Howe Printing

Fujifilm & Fuji Xerox Excellence in Digital Print Award

Finsbury Green

EML Excellence in Craftsmanship Award

Openbook Howden Design & Print

Media Super Excellence in Print Award

Newstyle Printing

Zero Waste SA Award

Printak

Media Super-LIA Future Leader Award

Darius Kooth from Print Graphic Displays

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