The contest is open to all HP Indigo commercial press users and their customers and will include best-of-category prizes for marketing collateral, photo speciality, direct mail/transpromo, and publications entries, as well as for a “special processes” category highlighting jobs printed with extreme or demanding criteria.

HP adds it is also accepting entries in a new environmental category for top-quality work that has an environmental message or is produced on recycled media.

Alon Bar-Shany, vice president and general manager, Indigo division, HP says, “Our last contest in 2008 received more than 450 entries from 31 countries and included breakthrough examples of the advantages HP Indigo presses have to offer.

“This year we expect to see even higher quality and a broader range of media types as our most innovative customers push the envelope on what digital presses can produce.”

HP will announce up to three winners in each category at a gala awards dinner for customers during May’s Ipex trade show in Birmingham, England. In addition, HP will display contest entries at its stand at the show.

In 2009 two Australian companies took out awards – SUPA STIK Labels in the Labels and Labelling category and RFID N Print in the Security Label category.

The deadline for submitting entries is March 31, 2010. HP continues that there is no limit to the number of entries HP Indigo press users can submit, and there is no submission fee.

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