The night of nights for printers and publishers was more competitive this year with an increased number of entries vying for the prestigious awards.

Everbest Printing was a firm favourite with judges, taking out the most prizes with six awards. They were: the Best Limited Edition Book, no price limit, in the sheetfed books section; Best Novelty Book or Stationery Item in the non-standard items section; Judges; Commendation Award in both the prepress and printing, and the production sections; Trophy of Excellence for Best Book; and a Trophy of Excellence for Best Non-Standard Item.

High quality magazine specialists, Offset Alpine Printing, took out three of the four awards in the Periodicals section, as well as two Judges; Commendation Awards and one Trophy for Excellence.

The Victorian-based McPherson’s Printing Group was the recipient of the Australian Printed Book of the Year Award, for Outback Heroes, published by Penguin Group Australia.

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