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GPA has announced the winners of its 2014 Print & Design Contest, which is designed to recognize outstanding work by the company’s customers. Companies across the country submitted their entries on GPA substrates to compete in seven product categories for Best of Category; from the seven winning entries, one is chosen as Best of Show.
Minnesota-based GLS Companies, named one of Printing Impressions’ top 100 printing companies in America in 2014, has received this year’s Best of Show award. The company took home the win in the Ultra Digital® Papers 1 category. The entry was a self-promotional mailer created entirely in-house to showcase the capabilities of printing B2-sized sheets with its new HP Indigo 10000 press – the third one installed in the U.S.
GLS planned its promotional campaign in advance of the press’ arrival and developed a digital variable comic book story written by Pam Griffith and illustrated by Steve Barry. The piece utilized augmented reality, 22 different placements of variable data and has a folded construction that makes the piece more engaging.
GPA’s contest judges hailed the winning entry as a representation of the future of print. GLS tested different papers for this project and opted for GPA’s Ultra Digital® 80# White Matte Text.
“A great deal of thought went into the ideation and implementation of this promotion,” says Jim Benedict, marketing director at GLS. “When we saw the finished piece and our customers’ reactions, we knew we had a winner. Taking home the top award in GPA’s Print & Design Contest is a great honor for us and a tremendous reward for our team that worked so hard to make this successful marketing campaign a reality.”
The Best of Category winners:
Chromatic Inc. Lithographers of Glendale, CA – Ultra Bak® Plus & Ultra Bak® Classic Pressure Sensitive Papers¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
Primary Color of El Segundo, CA – Ultra Film® Pressure Sensitive Synthetics ¬
Spangler Graphics/RR Donnelley of Kansas City, KS – Ultra Film® Non-Adhesive Synthetics
Bennett Graphics of Tucker, GA with design by Chris Hyde from Cypher Creative – Ultra Digital® Papers II
The John Roberts Company of Minneapolis, MN – Ultra Digital® Pressure Sensitive Papers
The Standard Group of Lititz, PA – Ultra Digital® Synthetic Substrates
Entries were evaluated on uniqueness of design, number of substrates utilized, complexity of production, application use and quality of printing. The contest was judged by was judged by a panel of three industry experts: Deborah Corn, principal, Chief Blogger, and Intergalactic Ambassador to The Printerverse for PrintMediaCentr, and host of #PrintChat, a weekly Twitter discussion on all things print; Michael Johnston, president at Top Graphics in Maryland Heights, MO and creator of GPA’s Print Trial Process; and Dean Petrulakis, senior vice president of business development at Rider Dickerson.
For a printed piece to be eligible, it must be from an actual job or promotion that was printed by a GPA customer on a qualified GPA substrate.
Minnesota-based GLS Companies, named one of Printing Impressions’ top 100 printing companies in America in 2014, has received this year’s Best of Show award. The company took home the win in the Ultra Digital® Papers 1 category. The entry was a self-promotional mailer created entirely in-house to showcase the capabilities of printing B2-sized sheets with its new HP Indigo 10000 press – the third one installed in the U.S.
GLS planned its promotional campaign in advance of the press’ arrival and developed a digital variable comic book story written by Pam Griffith and illustrated by Steve Barry. The piece utilized augmented reality, 22 different placements of variable data and has a folded construction that makes the piece more engaging.
GPA’s contest judges hailed the winning entry as a representation of the future of print. GLS tested different papers for this project and opted for GPA’s Ultra Digital® 80# White Matte Text.
“A great deal of thought went into the ideation and implementation of this promotion,” says Jim Benedict, marketing director at GLS. “When we saw the finished piece and our customers’ reactions, we knew we had a winner. Taking home the top award in GPA’s Print & Design Contest is a great honor for us and a tremendous reward for our team that worked so hard to make this successful marketing campaign a reality.”
The Best of Category winners:
Chromatic Inc. Lithographers of Glendale, CA – Ultra Bak® Plus & Ultra Bak® Classic Pressure Sensitive Papers¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
Primary Color of El Segundo, CA – Ultra Film® Pressure Sensitive Synthetics ¬
Spangler Graphics/RR Donnelley of Kansas City, KS – Ultra Film® Non-Adhesive Synthetics
Bennett Graphics of Tucker, GA with design by Chris Hyde from Cypher Creative – Ultra Digital® Papers II
The John Roberts Company of Minneapolis, MN – Ultra Digital® Pressure Sensitive Papers
The Standard Group of Lititz, PA – Ultra Digital® Synthetic Substrates
Entries were evaluated on uniqueness of design, number of substrates utilized, complexity of production, application use and quality of printing. The contest was judged by was judged by a panel of three industry experts: Deborah Corn, principal, Chief Blogger, and Intergalactic Ambassador to The Printerverse for PrintMediaCentr, and host of #PrintChat, a weekly Twitter discussion on all things print; Michael Johnston, president at Top Graphics in Maryland Heights, MO and creator of GPA’s Print Trial Process; and Dean Petrulakis, senior vice president of business development at Rider Dickerson.
For a printed piece to be eligible, it must be from an actual job or promotion that was printed by a GPA customer on a qualified GPA substrate.