The Seybold Report

RadTech Europe Issues a Call for International Innovations Awards Entries

RadTech Europe, an industry association supporting UV and EB curing technology, has issued a call for entries for its bi-annual and 6th edition of its international Innovations Awards. The competition is open to companies creating innovative applications using UV or EB curable inks, coating or adhesives and/or produced in any printing, manufacturing or construction application using radiation curing technology. Deadline for entry submission is September 15, 2013, and the awards will be presented during RadTech Europe's 25th Jubilee Conference and Exhibition in Basel, Switzerland October 15. more

Quick Printing Magazine Readers Choice Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 2013 Quick Printing Magazine Readers’ Choice Top Products Awards competition have been announced. The competition had 21 categories including color management, ink and toner, digital presses, and more, and only one winner per category was allowed. more

GMG OpenColor Receives 2013 FTA Technical Innovation Award

The Flexographic Technical Association has awarded GMG OpenColor a Technical Innovation Award in the category of Prepress-Graphics. The Technical Innovation Award recognizes companies and/or individuals whose visions and perseverance bring new products and technologies to the flexographic marketplace. more

Printing Industries of America Announces New Categories for Print Competition

Printing Industries of America has announced changes to its Premier Print Awards competition. The On-Demand and Digital Printing category has been renamed, and eight new sub-categories have been introduced. There are now eight sub-categories in the Digital Print category: On Demand, Brochures and Booklets, Juvenile Books, Novelty Books, Cookbooks, Customized/Personalized/Variable-Data, and Campaigns. more

PODi Announces 2013 Best Practices in Digital Printing Award Winners

PODi has announced the 2013 winners of the PODi Best Practices Awards for digital printing case studies. This year, in addition to the three Best Practice Awards and honorary mentions, PODi awarded a special merit award to recognize an outstanding digital print solution. PODi will present the awards at the annual AppForum conference. This year the event will take place January 28-30 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.

And the winners are...

• Best Practices Winner: Workflow Automation Category
  Manulife Financial Affinity Markets and Distributech Inc. “Manulife Financial Moves to On-Demand Enrollment Kit Fulfillment”

• Honorable Mention: Fox Valley Technical College, Fox Valley Printing Services (in-plant) “Fox Valley College Improves Cycle Time and Services”

• Best Practices Winner: Self-Promotion Category
  The Standard Group  “The Standard Group Holiday Promotion Creates an Interactive Marketing Experience”

• Honorable Mention: APi-Marketing  “APi-Marketing Successfully Rebrands Business”

• Outstanding Solution Merit Award
  Hallmark Digital and MSP  “Hallmark Digital Utilizes Automated Workflow to Deliver On-Demand Personalized Greeting Products”

PODi also announced the first edition of 2013 PODi case studies, including in-depth presentations detailing the award winning projects, has recently been added to the Case Study Database. These 24 case studies cover 10 vertical markets and nine different business applications. more

Society of Professional Journalists Solicits Submissions for 2013 SDX Awards

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is seeing submissions of written and broadcast journalism published or aired in 2012 for entry into the Sigma Delta Chi Awards. Entries can be in any of eight categories including print, radio, television, newsletters, art/graphics, online, and research. The contest is open to any United States media outlet and international SPJ members. more

Hewlett-Packard Accepting Entries for the 2013 Sign and Display Print Excellence Awards

Hewlett-Packard has issued a call for entries for the 2013 Sign and Display Print Excellence Awards. Designed to recognize HP customers worldwide for best-in-class large-format graphics produced on HP Scitex and Designjet systems. A panel of regional experts will select winners in several categories including a special recognition for environmentally responsible printing. The entry deadline is February 25, with winners to be announced at ISA, April 4-6, 2013, and the winning entries will be displayed in HP’s booth at ISA. more

Women of Distinction Awards Presented at Graph Expo

OutputLinks Communications Group honored seven women with Women of Distinction Awards at Graph Expo 2012: Anja D’Hondt of Duomedia, Silvie Joseph of LaPoste, Jennifer Matt of Web2Print Experts Inc., Sally Pirri of the Globe and Mail, Mary Lee Schneider of RR Donnelley, Mary Beth Smith of Girls Who Print and AlphaGraphics, and Davita Vance-Cooks of the U.S. Government Printing Office. more

Frank Romano Honored at RIT Isaiah Thomas Ceremony

Long-time Friend of Seybold, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus, and printing industry expert Frank Romano was honored by the institution where he has taught for 22 years with a surprise award of appreciation and recognition during this year’s Isaiah Thomas Award in Publishing ceremony. Chris Bondy, administrative chair of RIT’s School of Media Sciences, presented him with a framed certificate at the event on September 20 in Worchester, Massachusetts. more

Printing Industries of America Honors Testa with Naomi Berber Memorial Award

Printing Industries of America has announced Regina (Gina) Testa, Vice President of Graphic Communications Industry Business at Xerox Corp. will receive the 2012 Naomi Berber Memorial Award, honoring women in the graphic communications industry with exceptional records of accomplishments. Testa was appointed to her present position in 2009 after more than 25 years of executive experience in financial, operational, product delivery, and marketing. Testa is Chair of the marketing committee and member of the executive leadership committee of The Print Council and has a long record of active participation in industry and community organizations. more

AVT Wins Global Label Industry Award for Innovation for SpectraLab

Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) has won the Label Industry Award for New Innovation for 2012 for its SpectraLab product. The award was presented at the Label Industry Global Awards 2012 ceremony at LabelExpo in Chicago. more

2012 Web2awards Winners Announced

Printing Industries of America and the Digital Printing Council have announced the winners of this year’s Web2awards, honoring the best Web sites in the printing or marketing service provider categories. The awards will be presented at the 2012 Premier Print Awards Gala October 7 in Chicago. more

Raymond Rafalowski Receives Printing Industries of America 2012 Education Award

Raymond Rafalowski, National Account Manager for Fujifilm North America Co. is the industry recipient of the 2012 Education Award of Excellence from Printing Industries of America for providing training that goes beyond his normal professional responsibilities. Rafalowski started in Pittsburgh as a letterpress typesetter and pressman at Neyhart Printing and became a cameraman at the University of Pittsburgh and Fisher Scientific Company before joining Fujifilm. He will receive his award October 7 at the 2012 GASC/Printing Industries of America Teacher’s Conference at Graph Expo. more

KMWorld Magazine Names AnyDoc CAPTUREit Trend-Setting Product of 2012

KMWorld has chosen AnyDoc CAPTUREit as a Trend-Setting Product for 2012. Designed for local or remote distributed document capture, CAPTUREit transmits document images via the Internet. more

Prinect Performance Benchmarking Software Wins InterTech Technology Award

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG has won the InterTech Technology Award 2012 from Printing Industries of America and the IT Innovation Award from Initiative Mittelstand for its Web-based Prinect Performance Benchmarking solution. more