Sappi Fine Paper North America, Boston, Mass., USA, has issued a call for entries in its North American Printers of the Year awards for 2010, a competition that recognizes print excellence and innovation for work produced on Sappi papers. Winning printers can win up to $20,000 in design support of their marketing initiatives for each category and will be featured in Sappi's upcoming searchable online database for designers, printer buyers, and corporations. All entries for the competition must be received by February 12.
Printers can enter existing work printed between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2009, that uses a Sappi paper as the dominant stock and is printed on a Sappi paper in the U.S. or Canada. For each entry, six copies of the printed piece must be submitted by mail along with one copy of the entry form. More details and the entry form are available on Sappi's website, or by calling 800-882-4332.
This year Sappi has expanded the Printers of the Year program to include a digital category recognizing the trend towards digital printing even in the most demanding applications. Printers may submit entries for one of the following 10 categories: Annual Reports, Books, Brochures, Calendars, Catalogs, Digital Print, Magazines (sheet fed), Magazines (web), Printer's Own Promotions, or General Print (any printed material not included in the other categories). Each printer may submit an unlimited number of entries but each entry must be accompanied by its own entry form. All entries will be judged on overall impact of the piece, degree of difficulty in the printing techniques, and technical excellence.
Printers will be initially competing for the Silver Awards, who then compete for the Gold Awards and Sappi's International Printers of the Year, respectively. The Silver Award winners from each region (Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, Midwest, Northeast, South and West) will be chosen in each of the 10 categories for a total of 60 Silver Awards. These finalists will represent their regions in the challenge for the Gold Awards (winners from each category for a total of 10 winners who will receive up to $20,000 in design support). Gold Award winners from North, Central, and South America will then compete in the International Printers of the Year Awards to be issued later this year.
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