HP Indigo Ribbon Awards honor digital printers

HP has announced the winners of its inaugural HP Indigo Ribbon Awards competition, which recognizes HP Indigo press users who are producing the best high-value, offset-quality digital printing in the marketplace.
“We were delighted with the caliber of entries in the competition,” said Alon Bar-Shany, vice president and general manager, Indigo division, HP. “Using HP Indigo technology, we’ve seen our customers take digital printing to a new level. Featuring everything from black and white photos to foil labels, many of the entries were indistinguishable from offset printing.”
Impaxx Inc. subsidiary AC Label, Fremont, Calif., won the Transformational Showcase award for a wine label printed on foil.  The label is an exact replica of a design that was originally produced on a rotary offset press. AC Label also earned a Best of Category award in packaging and labels for a second high-end wine label printed on foil.
Additional Best of Category award winners included: Imagers, Atlanta, in photo specialty; Shutterfly, Redwood City, Calif., in photo specialty: high volume; Worth Higgins & Associates, Richmond, Va., in advertising items; and American Screen Art, Knoxville, Tenn., in specialty: point-of-sale/point-of-purchase.
Honorable mention awards were presented to the following:
 AC Label, Fremont, Calif.
American Thermoplastic Co., Pittsburgh
B.R. Printing Plates Co. Ltd., Bedford, Nova Scotia
Colorcraft of VA Inc., Sterling, Va.
Digital Marketing, Minneapolis
Dupli-Graphic, Chicago
Fort Dearborn Co., Fremont, Calif.
Global Soft Digital Solutions, Mahwah, N.J.
Graphics Service Bureau, New York
Imagers, Atlanta
Kramer Printing, Westport, Wis.
Lithocraft Inc., New Albany, Ind.
Paper Tiger, Santa Fe, N.M.
Screenprint/Dow Inc., Wilmington, Mass.
Worth Higgins & Associates, Richmond, Va.