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Best of Show and First Place – Wine & Spirits, Flexography/Letterpress, Color Process Prime ASL Print FX, Vaughan, ON, Canada Product: Dan Aykroyd Sauvignon Blanc Description/Challenges: Printed stochastically to enhance print quality using holographic cold foil, UV flexo inks, gold hot stamp, matte/gloss varnish, raised varnish silkscreen. Suppliers:Fasson, Sun Chemcial, Actega WIT, Kurz |
This year's competition drew 297 entries – 257 from North American members of the Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute, and 40 from international members. First place awards were presented for 35 North American labels and tags, and for 17 international labels. Twenty-six second place awards were presented, four of them to international converters.
Eighteen companies won multiple awards. Multi-Color, which had 25 entries as a North American member and seven as an international member (Collotype Labels International), had eight first place awards and four in second place. McDowell Label & Screen Printing, which submitted 42 labels to the competition, won six firsts and two seconds.
The judging committee, chaired by Steve Lee of RotoMetrics, included Mike Buystedt, Flint Group Narrow Web; J. Page Crouch, Clemson University; Jim Flynn, Gallus; Gary Gordon, Mark Andy; Pat Hague, Actega WIT; Ray Mackura, Avery Dennison Fasson Roll; Mac Rosenbaum, PCMC/Aquaflex; Robert Smithson, Trinity Corporation; and Paul Teachout, Harper Corporation of America.
Collotype Labels International Holdings, Miles End, South Australia
Product: The V Spot
Description/Challenges: Printed offset 200# with four color process at 53 fpm.
Suppliers: Kodak, DIC, RotoMetrics, Avery Dennison
First Place – Offset, Color Process, Prime (International)
Pilot Italia, Usmate Velate, Italy
Product: Sagra Bassa Acidità
Description/Challenges: To print over a silver foil applied on transparent substrate. Printed using cold printed foil, offset, flexography.
Suppliers: Nilpeter, Sun Chemical, API, Fasson
DRG Technologies, Safford, AZ, USA
Product: Temposonics L Series
Description/Challenges: Three colors UV ink, flatbed roll-to-roll screenprint using both 280 and 300 mesh screens. Product must withstand abrasion and chemical washes.
Suppliers: 3M, Norcote, Fasson
Consolidated Products, Knoxville, TN, USA
Product: Patient ID Card
Description/Challenges: Print on 8 pt. tag stock, two sides,
four color process with three spot colors, laminated, sheeted
and 100 percent inspection required.
Suppliers: Mark Andy, Imagework, Harper, Monarch, Wilson, Fasson, acpo.
Schreiner Group, Munich, Germany
Product: Contactless mobile sticker
Description/ Challenges: Produce a sticker to provide quick and convenient payments of small amounts of money without a PIN. It must be safe from tampering, counterfeiting or theft. RFID must be usable on metal surfaces.
Suppliers: HP Indigo, Ritrama.
Multi-Color, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Product: Dawn Home Essentials
Description/Challenges: The label was gravure printed using solvent based inks with a flood coat solvent varnish. Due to the detailed, life-like process image, the cylinders were engraved at 200 lpi.
York Label, Omaha, NE, USA
Product: Decoy Pinot Noir
Description/Challenges: Combination high-line process printing in combination with stochastic magenta. Sculpted emboss to enhance the decoy illustration. Printed using UV offset lithography, deboss texture, semi-rotary hot stamping, matte rotary screen tactile, sculpted flat emboss, UV flexo, magnetic diecutting.
First Place – Coupon
Smyth Companies, St. Paul, MN, USA
Product: The Silver Ticket
Description/Challenges: In-pack gaming promotion with sports event related theme. The coupon needed to withstand the demands of ultra high speed label applications. Special perf patterns on game piece and fanfold web, tight release liner to prevent label from predispensing. Printed using UV flexo, thermal inkjet.
Labelad, Markham, ON, Canada
Product: Boo-Nilla scented votives
Description/Challenges: Client did not want label too bright and cheery but dark and gloomy. Digital press, offline diecut
& varnish, 4 color & varnish 180 line screen.
Suppliers: UPM Raflatac, EskoArtwork, HP Indigo, Omega, Sun Chemical, RotoMetrics.
Logmatix, Marietta, GA, USA
Product: Elasta QP Soy Oyl
Description/Challenges: Glass door and window cling. Used as advertisement for the product line at retail stores. Printed using flexography.
Suppliers: Green Bay Packaging, Actega WIT, Zeller+Gmelin, MacDermid via JV Imaging, Harper, RotoMetrics
First Place – Promotional (International)
Germark, Barcelona, Spain
Product: Danet
Description/Challenges: Develop a removable adhesive so when the poster is removed from the cooler there is no adhesive residue. The final step was to print the front label, apply two strips of adhesive-reserve, laminate and diecut.
Suppliers: ExxonMobil Chemical, Wink Stanzwerkzeuge, Siegwerk, Omet.
First Place – Wine & Spirits, Flexography/ Letterpress, Color Process, Prime (Int'l)
KimBells pack, Quezon City, Philippines
Product: Don Roberto's Coffee Wine
Description/Challenges: The label needed to take the form of a leaf from a coffee plant.
In-house blade fabrication was used to execute the concept. The blade was prepared manually and not electronically. The challenge was to make the coffee beans "pop" when applied to its black package. Printed using four UV letterpress process colors, silkscreen, printed on an inline flatbed screen and semi-rotary letterpress. Hot stamping/diecutting for the gold leaf structrure design, lamination, and leaf contour diecutting.
Suppliers: Amron, Siegwerk, Toka, Ruco, Graficon, Iwasaki, Miraclon
Amherst Label, Milford, NH, USA
Product: Med-Sked Tabs
Description/Challenges: Take a concept and develop a medical dosage schedule label. The label must have no release and create a bond, no adhesive and the tabs must be removed. The liner had to be clear allowing for information to be visible.
Suppliers: International Tape Products, 3 Sigma, Actega WIT, Harper, Asahi plates.
First Place – Tags, Merchandising
McDowell Label & Screen, Plano, TX, USA
Product: Hempz Pure Herbal Extracts
Description/Challenges: Extremely tight reverse register, very tight color matching standards to previously run items with a unique sheeted design. Printed using HD UV flexo.
Suppliers: Fasson, Actega WIT
Bonham Label, Livermore, CA, USA
Product: Van Ruiten Pinot Noir
Description/Challenges: Diecutting/stripping challenge.
Single level and sculpted multiple level embossing. Spot gloss varnish. Printed using six-color UV flexo, two water varnishes, one UV spot gloss varnish, polymer background emboss, multi-level sculpted emboss combined with raised round emboss.
Suppliers: UPM Raflatac, Kocher+Beck, RotoMetrics, Trinity Graphics, Infinity Foils, Metal Magic Engraving
FIRST PLACE, NORTH AMERICAN
Amherst Label (Innovation Award)
– Med-Sked Tabs
Flexography, line, prime
ASL Group - All Stick Label (Best of Show)
– Dan Aykroyd Sauvignon Blanc
Wine & Spirits, flexo/letterpress, color process, prime
Bonham Label
– Van Ruiten Pinot Noir
Wine & Spirits, flexo/letterpress, line, prime
– Pilot Peak Syrah
Wine & Spirits, flexo/letterpress, line, prime
Collotype Labels USA
– Artesa Chardonnay
Wine & Spirits, offset, line, prime
Consolidated Label
– Kaña Cuban Coffee Roasters
Digital Printing, food & beverage products
Consolidated Products
– Patient ID card
Flexo, color process, non-prime
Dow Industries
– Shark Fin Tungsten Darts
Digital Printing, all other
DRG Technologies
– Temposonics L Series
Flat Screen Printing (rollfed only), line, prime
Label Technology
– Columbus Calabrese Salame
Flexo, line, prime
Labelad
– Boo-Nilla
Digital Printing, household goods
– Quest Vitamin E
Digital Printing, health & beauty products
Labeltronix
– Lean 'N Complete
Flexo, color process, prime
Logmatix
– Elasta QP Soy Oyl
Promotional
McDowell Label & Screen Printing
– Crave bronzer
Multi-Process, color process, prime
– Wicked tanning lotion
Roll-to-roll, line & screen/tone, prime
– OC Show Off tanning lotion
Roll-to-roll, color process, prime
– Hempz Original Herbal Body Moisturizer
Rotary Screen, line prime
– Hempz Pure Herbal Extracts
Tags, merchandising
Medical label
– EDP Label
MPI Label Systems of California
Sloth Zinfandel
– Multi-Process, line & screen/tone, prime
Multi-Color
– Leinenkugel beer label
Gravure, color process, non-prime
– göt2b fat-tastic hair spray
Gravure, line, prime
– Mobil Delvac 1
Non-Pressure Sensitive, all processes/cut & stack, color process, prime
– Dawn Home Essentials
Gravure, color process, prime
– Schlitz OML
Gravure, line & screen/tone, non-prime
National Label
– Lubriderm
Multi-Process, line, prime
– Rave 4X Mega hair spray
Gravure, line & screen/tone, prime
Smyth Companies
– Herman Joseph's Private Reserve
Flexo, line & screen/tone, prime
– The Silver Ticket
Coupon
Spear
– O'Doul's
Non-Pressure Sensitive, all processes/cut & stack, line & screen/tone, prime
Tapp Technologies
– Quail's Gate Fortified Vintage Foch
Offset, color process, prime
WS Packaging
– Miro Petite Sirah
Digital Printing, wine & spirits (beer)
York Label
– Decoy Pinot Noir
Wine & Spirits, offset, color process, prime
– Jade Mountain Chardonnay
Wine & Spirits, offset, line & screen/tone, prime
FIRST PLACE, INTERNATIONAL
Collotype Labels International
– House of Arras Grand Vintage
Wine & Spirits, offset, line/prime
– The V Spot
Wine & Spirits, offset, color process, prime
– Chandon Prestige Cuvee
Wine & Spirits, offset, line & screen/tone, prime
Germark
– Danet
Promotional
– Etienne Aigner
Multi-Process, line, prime
– Disney Tattoos
Flexo, line & screen/tone, non-prime
– Foguera Blanc
Digital Printing, wine & spirits (beer)
– Oleura
Digital printing, food & beverage products
KimBells pack
– Don Roberto's Coffee Wine
Wine & Spirits, flexo/letterpress, color process, prime
– Vital R5 Collagen Soap
Paperboard/Rigid Packaging
– Efficascent ointment
Multi-Process, line & screen/tone, prime
Labelgraphics (Glasgow)
– Ballantine's Blended Scotch Whisky
Wine & Spirits, flexo/letterpress, line & screen/tone, prime
Pilot Italia
– Sagra Bassa Acidità
Offset, color process, prime
– Grappa Barrique
Wine & Spirits, flexo/letterpress, line prime
Schreiner
– Label with self-lifting, detachable parts
Flat Screen Printing (rollfed only)
– Contactless mobile sticker
Digital Printing, all other
– Self-adhesive lighting strip
Rotary Screen, line, non-prime