The 30th annual award ceremony was held at the Palladium Ballroom at Crown Casino on Friday night, following the fourth day of PacPrint13.
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Sydney-based Offset Alpine also took home two silvers and a bronze, while Queensland-based Platypus added three silvers to its haul.
One of the biggest winners of the night was Bassendean-based Geon, which has since returned to its original name of Advance Press after being taken over by a management buyout in March. The company took home three golds, two silvers and three bronzes.
Melbourne printer McKellar Renown can also make a strong argument as the night’s most successful printer, having scooped two golds as well as two of the prestigious Sponsors Awards: the Heidelberg Australia Award and the Fuji Xerox Effectiveness Award.
The gala ceremony took the theme of the ‘Midas Touch’, and a cascade of gold flowed from the stage to printers from every state.
Two more Victorian printers won at home with two golds apiece, Adams Print and RA Printing, while a bevy of other printers each won a single gold.
Awards chairman John Wanless told the audience: “For 30 years now, the National Print Awards has not only recognised and encouraged the achievement of excellence in print, but has provided the industry with the opportunity to celebrate another year in an industry which has not only survived but continues to produce world quality work.”
The other Sponsors Awards went to Picpress, whose Expressions of our Centenary Children took out the ‘Book Printing, digitally printed’ gong and the Currie Group Award, and PMP’s South Australian book business, Griffin Press, whose Jasmine Weinmass took the Media Super Future Leaders Award.
Meanwhile, Port Melbourne-based Bambra Press, which made one of the biggest investments
at this year’s PacPrint when it signed for one of the B2-format Indigo 10000 presses on the Currie Group stand, was the winner of what is arguably the night’s most sought-after honour, the Judge’s Award, for the book, Napoleon – Revolution to Empire, which took out the ‘Book Printing Case Bound’ category.
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