The National Print Awards (NPAs) saw Geelong based Adams Print crowned the overall winner, taking home four gold medals.
Printers from around the country travelled to Brighton Lakes Golf Club in Moorebank, Sydney, to celebrate the nation’s best print.
With 120 people in attendance, the intimate venue played host to a new-look NPAs, in which the formalities took a minimal amount of time, with printers free to network, eat, drink, and wind down.
Sydney’s Momento Pro took home the top prize of the night, the Ball & Doggett Judges Award, for its Omar + Suzi Wedding Book, which also won gold in the limited edition category.
The Media Super Young Executive of the Year Award was won by Rio Chard, of Scott Print. Chard thanked the team at Scott for the support they had given her in her decade at the business. Scott Print as a business won gold in the environmental print category.
Norman Field took home the Industry Legend award, recognising his lifetime of work in print.
Adams Print, as the overall winner, took gold in the leaflets, flyers, or brochures category, along with offset books, the innovative reinvention category, and the Ball & Doggett Highly Commended award.
Following closely was digitalpress, which took home three gold, across digital books, saddle stitched booklets, catalogues and magazines, and the regional/small business printing award, which is defined as businesses with less than 12 employees.
Semi-retired Michael Warshall, with company Nulab Group, took home two golds, in multi-piece promotional print, and specialty printing.
Multi-Color Corporation also took home two golds, in non-offset labels, and embellishments.
Colour Chiefs left with golds in design categories, both books, brochures and annual reports, and the promotion category, which recognises work which does not fit neatly into the awards structure.
Rawson Print also left with two golds, winning in both packaging and self-promotion.
Quality Press took home a gold in digital books, sharing the prize with digitalpress.
Whirlwind won gold in the hybrid digital/offset printed books category.
The Eckersley Group won gold in the glue-binded booklets, catalogues, and magazine category.
Offset labels was won by James Print, which left with one gold medal.
Printing giant Blue Star also won gold, taking home the prize for the point of sale category, while Vekta won the gold in direct mail.
The large format applications category, which covers A0 size and above, was won by Rooster IMC.
Platypus Graphics won the gold medal for annual reports, which also covers prospectus, and year books.
Chapel Press won the gold for stationary, which was across all printing methods and formats.
The 3D print category, a relative newcomer on the NPA award list, was won by Ellipsis Media.
Branding and identity was won by Pep Central, as the company’s sole gold.
This was the first NPAs to take place under the new awards structure, in which the state based PICA awards fed into the national awards.
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