Flint Group announces ninth annual narrow web print competition

The criteria for judging follows the standard guidelines set by the industry associations FINAT and TLMI and include: registration, smoothness of dot/vignette, overall print quality, and degree of difficulty. The judges also review each label for creative use of inks and color, rewarding prints that exhibit ‘extraordinary use of ink’.

Flint Group will highlight a special category for web packaging applications, which encourages printers to demonstrate the enriched palette of applications possible using narrow/mid web presses.

‘Flint Group has paid tribute to more than 45 companies around the world with this award,’ said Deanna Whelan, marketing manager, Flint Group Packaging and Narrow Web. ‘Year after year, we are amazed by the excellence, quality, and depth of design. Narrow web printing is truly an art and we’re proud to play a part in these masterpiece designs.’

Niklas Olsson, global brand manager, Flint Group Narrow Web, added: ‘Our Narrow Web Print Awards prove that narrow web printers continue to excel in the noble art of label printing – finding a way to produce high quality, innovative labels that keep our industry strong and growing. We are extremely proud, as an ink supplier, to be a part of this effort. We urge all printers to use this opportunity to benchmark their own quality standards in this format of “friendly” competition.’

The deadline for entries, which must be printed with Flint Group inks, is August 15, 2013. For 
more information contact Niklas Olsson in Europe at niklas.olsson@flintgrp.com, or Deanna Whelan in the United States at deanna.whelan@flintgrp.com.