PrintWeek Awards ceremony on 30 October

The Awards ceremony will be held at The Westin Mumbai Powai Lake. 

The Awards recognises the very best of printing, whether it’s innovation, quality, or out-of-box approach to the medium, in 33 categories across Performance, Quality, and Special Industry Awards. There are 11 Performance Awards, 18 Quality Awards and four Special Industry Awards.

This year, the Awards received more than 700 samples for the Quality Awards. For the Jury Week event, the categories were divided into three groups. There were separate sets of Jury members on each day.

All print samples were coded and the identity of the company was kept confidential. The Jury reviewed the entries, discussed their choices with their fellow Juries and then made the final selections.

On the first day of Jury Week, the members included: Dibyajyoti Sarma; Mukund Moghe; Naju Hirani; Praful Akali; Rajnish Shirsat; Sudha Ganapathi and Surendra Babu. The seven members judged the samples submitted in seven categories. 

On day two, the Jury team comprised Elodie Merot; Geet Nazir; Neeharika Paul; Nikhil Phadke; Ritesh Uttamchandani; Supreeth Sudhakaran and Yatin Patil. They judged samples in seven categories. This included two Innovative categories.

On day three, Jury members Amit Saurkar; Deepti Kshirsagar; Fazal Farooqui; Pratik Rane; Raju Kalgutkar; Sheetal Dandekar and Soma Roy judged the samples for five categories which included the heavyweight packaging categories. 

Commencing on the samples on the first day, which focused on books and commercial printing, Rajnish Shirsat, co-founder and CEO, R&S Enterprises, said, “The quality of work has gone up drastically with a lot of small players from small towns emerging. This is a great sign for the industry. I observed the post-press improving with many value-additions and neat finishes.” He added, “Digital printing has improved tremendously, and different papers used for book production and the consistency in printing were impressive.”

On the second day, what impressed the Jury most was the thought processes behind the designs of the samples, and the printing and matt, gloss, and adhesion to make the products stand out. 

Elodie Nerot, creative director, Elephant Design, said, “The samples we saw today highlight how packaging converters are pushing the boundary of what is traditionally possible in print. It was a revelation for me. I was excited to witness the different possibilities of packaging design.”

The PrintWeek Awards 2023 partners are Bindwel; Bobst India; Boxtech Bangalore; Canon India; Esko; Farb Technologies; Focus World Tours; Heidelberg India; Hi-Tech Inks; Indas Analytics; Kala Jyothi; NBG; Orient; Pidilite; Pratham Technologies; Sangeeta Poly Pack; SigLoch; Sona Papers; Stelda; TechNova; and Vinsak.

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