HP announces digital label award winners

HP announces digital label award winners

HP has announced the winners of the third annual HP Indigo Digital Labels and Packaging Contest, which recognizes customers from around the world for innovation in digital printing.

The contest witnessed significant growth in 2009 with more than 270 entries submitted – a 48 percent jump compared to last year. All submitted entries were produced on HP Indigo presses and were showcased in HP’s exhibit at Labelexpo Europe in Brussels in September, while winners received their awards at a gala dinner during the show.

‘Product brand owners, designers and label and packaging converters are growing in creative directions based on the outstanding quality and production flexibility HP Indigo offers,’ said Alon Bar-Shany, vice president and general manager, Indigo division, HP. ‘The end result is that the industry is seeing more and more top-quality labels and packaging work produced with digital – especially the winning entries showcased in this year’s contest.’

Categories for the contest included label printing for wine, household, industrial, food, pharmaceutical, alcoholic beverage and nutraceutical products. In addition, the contest honored the best shrink sleeve entry and the best entry produced as a self-promotion of a converter’s own capabilities.

Contest entries were judged by a panel of independent experts, including Paul Baker, principal scientist at Procter & Gamble Technical Centers; Paul Clayton, managing director of Royston Labels; Michael Fairley, director of strategic development for Tarsus’ Label Group; Andy Thomas, group managing editor, Labels & Labeling; and Tony White of AWA Consulting.

Innovative Labeling Solutions, a US firm based in Hamilton, Ohio, took home three best-of-category prizes at the gala, plus four additional honors. The complete list of best-of-category winners is below, with the category or categories each firm won shown in brackets.

  • DB Tech, Korea (industrial labels, pharmaceutical labels)
  • Forlabels, Greece (food product labels)
  • Gold Coast Graphics, USA (wine labels)
  • Innovative Labeling Solutions, USA (household product labels, neutraceutical labels, self-promotional work)
  • Kalfany Süße Werbung, Germany (flexible packaging)
  • Setprint Centro Tecnológico Digital, Brazil (health and beauty labels)
  • Supa Stik Labels & Labeling Systems, Australia (alcoholic beverage labels)
  • Traco Manufacturing, USA (shrink sleeve packaging)

In addition to these honors, judges presented awards to Bridge Publications, Do-It Corp, Dow Industries, Geostick, Label Solutions-Palero Impresores, Manufacturas Metálicas Canals, Osaka Sealing Printing, RFID n Print, Seiko, and Setprint Centro Tecnológico Digital in recognition of unique, high-quality entries those firms produced using HP Indigo technology. 

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