The Award’s night was honoured by the top brass of the print industry, and saw many first-timers clinch the awards.

This year the smaller cities played with a front-foot and bagged five awards; a sign that the print business in the non-metros has scaled its quality and are ready to lock horns with their competitors from metros.

Award attendees opted to follow a suo-moto tradition where they give a standing ovation to the most coveted award from the list of 25 award category: PrintWeek India Company of the Year. It’s a tradition that has evolved over a period of time. Manipal Technologies clinched the award this year. Replika Press won the Post-press Company of the Year award, making it to the top second time in a row. Classic Stripes secured the Screen Printer of the Year laurel, while Delhi-based pre-press specialist, Color Dots was chosen as the Pre-press Company of the Year. Prabhat Printing Works had a photo-finish, winning the Small Printer of the Year award this year, narrowly pipping the last year’s winner.

Interestingly, three award categories ended in a tie. Perfact Color Digital and Hitech Print Systems shared the prism in the Personalisation, VDP and Transpromo Printer of the Year. The second category was the Label Printer of the Year, where Any Graphics and Pragati Pack India shared the award and the third being Report and Accounts Printer of the Year which was shared by CDC Printers and Parksons Graphics.

Pragati Pack also the bagged the award in the PUR Book Maker of the Year category; this was the first time the category was introduced.

PrintWeek India salutes the winners and commends those who missed the laurels by whiskers. And as we wrapped up the night, the winners again proved that greatness doesn’t always lie in doing big things, it’s about perfecting the smallest bits.