The PrintNSW Excellence Awards attracted more than 250 entries and the Victorian Printing Industries Craftsmanship Awards (PICA) doubled the number of entries from its 2007 event to 340 this year.
Western Australia, Tasmania and South Australia/Northern Territory also attracted record entries for their events held during August.
Joe Kowalewski, national communications and technical services manager for Printing Industries says that the outstanding response was indicative of the level of industry support for the new award format that has seen the National Print Awards (NPA) adopt a greater value and prestige as a best of the best competition with no direct entry. Entry is only possible by winning a Gold award in the State competitions.
Kowalewski says, “We still need to encourage companies to plan their entries during the year minimising the last minute avalanche of entries, but this response is excellent.”
He says, “As with the award events held last month, the standard of entries is trending very high with more individual submissions from a wider range of printing companies participating in the state competitions.”
Entries for the Queensland PICA competition close on 19 September and the ACT PAGE Awards 17 October. The remaining award presentation functions are:
- Victorian PICA at the Carousel, Albert Park on Friday 17 October.
- NSW Print Excellence Awards Doltone House, Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont Point on Friday 10 October.
- ACT PAGE Awards ACT PAGE Awards Friday 7 November.
- Queensland PICA Friday 28 November.
The National Print Awards will be held on Friday 29 May 2009 in Melbourne in conjunction with the PacPrint exhibition.
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