Judgement Day: Jury says print is sleeker, prettier and more powerful

The stage is set at The Leela, Mumbai, for PrintWeek India's fifth edition Awards Jury Day

Print experts, print buyers, brand owners and design experts formed the 40-member jury panel

The Printonomics: 113 participating companies, 25 categories, more than 1,200 print samples

Print veterans, Kiran Prayagi and Purnendu Sen (centre), exchange "print gyaan"

Alpana Parida of D Y Works and Girish Shukla of Maximstyles confabulate about brochures and catalogues; both categories sponsored by AGS

(l-r): Hemant Randive of Draftfcb + Ulka and Purshottam Joshi of Taproot India look at print perfection in digital a category sponsored by Canon

In a flock: Jury members discussed (and occasionally read) books; a category which was sponsored by Welbound Worldwide

Labeling it right! An exciting category sponsored by Epson who are hosting an exciting roadshow on 5 September in New Delhi

Khushnum Ichhaporia, Kotak Mahindra Bank analyses an award sample

A second time judge at the PWI Awards, Geetanjali Bhattacharji of Spatial Access

Flight of print imagination with Fine Art; a category sponsored by Sona

Madan Mohapatra of Future Group looks at a Point-of-Purchase entry; newer approaches to visual merchandising

Books are special: 31 print companies submitted entries for the Book Printer category

Perfect bound book, paperbacks and hard-case books. Also PUR books; a category sponsored by Henkel

Out-of-the-box! An entry in the innovative segment; a category sponsored by ITC Paperboards and Speciality

Vishakha Singh of Aurora Comms, reads the fine print

A fine-art aficionado, Narendra Yadav of Lowe-Lintas, savours print

Some of the best work on display from the $24.6 billion-worth industry in packaging converter segment; a category sponsored by Bobst India

Amol Paranjape of JWT

Poster palace: Screen-printed and digitally printed posters on display

Manas Athanikar, Parle Agro

Shivkumar Mani, Steel Mart India

Men at work: the jury members teamed up to pick the best piece of print

Two dadas of print design: Sridhar Kondiparthi a.k.a. Pops of Leo Burnett and Alpana Parida

Girish Masand, art editor for Stuff India and What Hi-Fi magazines

Lupin Pharma's Sheetal Dandekar

Pops picks his favourite: the jury members highlighted print power with their favourite sample

Kiran Prayagi pours praises for this print sample

Ashwini Deshpande's pick-of-the-day. Deshpande is co-founder of Elephant design

Screen Printer of the Year category saw 15 companies send in their best works; a category sponsored by Skyscreen

Great point-of-purchase samples sells a brand’s promise — and the judges could relate to that

Creative Repro saw jobs which were full of labyrinths — and work which radiates imagination far beyond the real

Purnendu Sen looking at his first love: A newspaper

Saurav Roy of Idea Spice Design

Mohit Choche of HH Global glances through the Reports and Accounts Printer category, which received six entries, in contrast to the 36 received the previous year

Vikram Bawa, a photographer and a print professional

PrintWeek India Awards and the 40 jury members