EDP Awards Announced for 2012

EDP Awards Announced for 2012 Press Release

2012 European Digital Press Association Awards Announced


Now in its 6th year, the European Digital Press Association has grown from strength to strength - with 14 member countries representing over 1 million readers across Europe. Each year the EDP Association comes together to debate, discuss and award the best in innovative technology within the digital printing market.
The Awards are nominated by a technical committee made up of industry and digital print specialists, journalists and technical consultants and their recommendations are then discussed and voted upon at the EDP General Assembly. Although it is the Technical Committee’s responsibility to evaluate competing products and to prepare a list of nominees per category, it is the General Assembly who will finally ponder the Committee recommendations. The Technical Committee members include: Chris Cooke, Publishing Director Image Reports UK; Juan Martorell, Founder ColorinLab Color Consulting; Romeo Hutter, Editor in Chief, Publisher Switzerland; Herman Hartman, Editor in Chief Sign Pro Benelux; Steve Wicks, Owner of Greenprint Consultancy representing Drupa and Lorenzo Villa, Print Consultants.
The General Assembly has the last word in giving any Award. In the end, all EDP editors participate in the final decision on behalf of a readership of more than 1,00,000 digital print professionals making the EDP Awards and it’s recognised blue logo a most prestigious and prized accolade for any manufacturer to hold.

Chris Cooke, president of the EDP Association commented; “The 2012 awards are for products launched between March 1st 2011 and 29th February 2012 and this is probably one of the main reasons why out of 26 award categories, only 19 of them had outright winners, as many manufacturers have timed product launches to coincide with Drupa. The 19 very worthy winners have demonstrated that by listening to their customers and focusing investment in research and development they can continue to innovate to bring products to market that truly make a difference to their customers businesses and the market as a whole. We’re delighted to be working with our host Drupa in 2012 and congratulate all our winners in the 2012 awards. We would also like to thank all those that have submitted products for this year’s awards.”

The EDP Awards trophies will be presented at the Annual EDP Association Awards ceremony on the 8th of May at Drupa.

Drupa is the biggest printing trade exhibition in the world and will be held at Messe Düsseldorf 3-16 May 2012. Monika Kissing, manager, press and public relations for Drupa said: "The hosting of the EDP Awards in the 'drupacube' (Halls 7.0 and 7a) at Drupa 2012 complements perfectly the theme of using printed products for communication empowered by marketing. The criteria on which the product entries are judged for the Awards reinforce the concept of the drupacube itself; to provide a 'global showroom' for innovative applications that benefit the end user, the community, the manufacturer and the environment."

WINNING PRODUCT CATEGORIES

Best Wide Format Roll to Roll Printer – up to 1.6m wide
Epson SureColor SC-S30600

Best Wide Format Roll to Roll Printer – 1.6m wide +
HP Designjet L28500

Best Wide Format Textile Printer
Mimaki TS500-1800A

Best Wide Format Imaging Printer
Agfa M-Press Leopard

Best Hybrid Printer Sub-200k Euro
Durst Omega 1 Plus

Best Hybrid Printer 200k+ Euro
Efi VUTEk GS3250LX

EDP Technical Committee Award
Barbieri Electronic Spectro Pad

Best Production Cut-Sheet Printer – Light Production
Xerox DocuColor 8080

Best Production Cut-sheet Printer – High Production
Oce Varioprint DP Line

Best Web-Fed Printer
Xerox CiPress 500

Best Labeling Solution
Efi Jetrion 4900UV

Best Specialist Printing Solution
InkTec Jetrix 2513FRQ

Best Environmental Printing Solution
Mimaki JV-400LX Series

Best Environmental Substrate
Antalis DigiGreen

Best Innovative Substrate
Neschen Solvoclear Easy Protect

Best Web-based Software Product
Optimus Cloud

Best Wide Format Software Solution
SA International Pixel Blaster

Best Wide Format Finishing Device
Zund S3 Cutter
   
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EDP Awards to be held at DRUPA

EDP Awards to be held at DRUPA EDP Association to Announce EDP Awards at drupa 2012

Barcelona, January 26th, 2012
Today the vice president of the EDP Association, Mr Chris Cooke, announced that the prestigious EDP Awards that rewards printer and associated manufacturers for innovation in their research and design, will be held at drupa on the 8th of May 2012 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Only products launched into the print industry in the 12 months leading to the 28th of February 2012 will be included and the winners will be chosen by an international panel of independent print and print software experts. The shortlist will be announced in April and the winners announced at the ceremony to be held during drupa.
An EDP Award is the industry’s highest recognition of a products’ value and is synonymous with innovation and quality. Evaluation is based on innovation. The EDP Technical Committee judge the products on the value of the new technical abilities they offer. This can be innovation in the technology that improves speed, quality, usability and functionality or reduces environmental impact as well as cost to the user.
Also Head of the Technical Committee, Chris Cooke comments; “We are delighted to hold our annual EDP Association Awards at drupa this year. Our partnership further highlights the importance the industry places on an independent accolade that we can rely on. The EDP Association is very happy that the organisers of drupa have chosen to work with us to help support the digital print industry in whatever way we can.”
Drupa is the biggest printing trade exhibition in the world and will be held at Messe Düsseldorf from the 3rd- 16th of May 2012. Monika Kissing, Manager, Press and Public Relations for drupa says, “The hosting of the EDP Awards in the ‘drupacube’ (Halls 7.0 and 7a) at drupa 2012 complements perfectly the theme of using printed products for communication empowered by marketing. The criteria on which the product entries are judged for the Awards reinforce the concept of the drupacube itself; to provide a “global showroom” for innovative applications that benefit the end user, the community, the manufacturer and the environment.”
For more information on the EDP and the EDP Awards, visit www.edp-association.com and for more information on visiting drupa, visit www.drupa.com.
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About the EDP
The European Digital Press (EDP) Association was formed in 2006 by seven of Europe’s leading digital print publications. Between them, and their more recent members, their publications cover the whole of Europe and reaches over 1 million readers every month.

About drupa 2012
Drupa is the largest global technology event for print, publishing and media. The last event took place from 29th May – 11th June 2008 at the Messe Düsseldorf and welcomed approximately 389,000 visitors over the course of the show.
   
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