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CIP4 Announces 2010 CIPPI Awards Program
Thursday 20. May 2010 - Awards Presentations to be hosted by Printing Industries of America
The International Cooperation for the Integration of the Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress (CIP4) organization announced details of its 2010 annual Jürgen Schönhut Memorial CIP4 International Print Production Innovation (CIPPI) Awards Program. Applications are due Monday, August 16, 2010. The awards will be presented to the winners at Printing Industries of America’s Converge Conference, to be held November 7-9, 2010 at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee (Details at: www.printing.org/node/6096).
The categories for the CIPPI awards are:
* First and Second Place – Best cost/benefit realization and improvement in efficiency as a result of process automation implementation
* First and Second Place – Biggest improvement in quality production & customer responsiveness as a result of process automation
* Most Innovative Use of Process Automation Technology in an implementation*
* Small Business Process Automation Implementation of the Year (e.g., companies with less than 20 total employees, regardless of the number of locations.)*
* Best Digital Printing Process Automation Implementation of the Year*
* Best Process Automation Implementation – Europe
* Best Process Automation Implementation – North America
* Best Process Automation Implementation – Asia Pacific
* Best Process Automation Implementation – Emerging Markets
“Last year we saw winners from all around the world, ranging from North America to Japan, and the United Arab Emirates to Europe,” said CIP4 executive director James Harvey. “Winning applications last year included innovations in extending automation to creative processes, automation that connected printers directly with publishers, and new areas of finishing automation. Many printers around the world look to CIPPI award winners for ideas concerning where print automation is headed, and I’m looking forward to what new areas of printing and automation this year’s CIPPI awards applications will focus on.”
Any printer, prepress service or publisher may apply for the CIPPI awards, which are determined by the review panel of judges without affiliation to any vendor, printer, prepress service or publisher. Each application is eligible for one regional award, as well as an award in one or more of the main categories. The five review panel judges are:
* Patrick Cahuet of 1Prime|Concept (France)
* Bill Esler of Graphic Arts Monthly (USA)
* Stephan Jaeggi of PrePress-Consulting (Switzerland)
* Tetsuo Kimura of PrinTechno, Inc. (Japan)
* John Leininger of Clemson University (USA)