Picture Gallery: Canon presents PrintWeek India Awards 2012 Jury day

Ramu Ramanathan, group editor, PrintWeek India and Campaign India, welcomes the jury members

The 32-member jury panel being briefed by Ramu Ramanathan before the judging session begins

The jury were handed over the jury kits, which explained the criteria for judging the entries for 19 quality and six performance awards

The ballroom where the entries were showcased

The ballroom where the entries were showcased

Ramu Ramanathan explaining the nitty-gritty of a print sample

Sheetal Dandekar, senior product manager, Lupin India and Saurav Roy, director of Idea Spice Design examine catalogues and brochures

Huzefa Kanorwala, HH Print Management India and Kiran Prayagi of GATE. The day also allowed the jury members an opportunity to discuss print and print management

Jury members looking at the high quality colour prints produced using different print processes, digital and screen print in this case

Judges inspect the security features of the entries submitted in the personalisation, VDP and Transpromo Printer of the Year category

Jury members brainstorm a particular print sample, which caught their attention

Karan Rawat, Executive creative director, Grey, Vijay Sawant, Group creative director, Ogilvy and Mather and Hitesh Pravin Shah, Studio manager, BBDO India. Among many things that the jury members did was discuss among themselves before giving their marks.

Jayashree Joshi, Programme officer, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai and Pronoti Datta, assistant editor of Times of India look at the latest publishing trends

Jury members scrutinising the packaging convertor entries

Packaging entries encompassed all types of printing packaging including cartons, flexible packaging and other containers

Several judges found the 3D poster of Ra.One particularly eye-catchy

This particular print sample came in for close scrutiny

Print samples every where...

Pronoti Datta looks at how design merges with print in the Magazine Printer of the Year

Ashwini Deshpande, founder director, Elephant Design and Yogesh Bambal, packaging development manager, Cadbury India taking a close look at the packaging entries

The jury had a tough time judging the 23 entries in the Packaging Convertor of the Year category

Jury members were searching for new effects other than Met Pet and varnish effects in the Packaging Convertor of the Year category

Jury members discuss finer points of the judging criteria with PWI's deputy editor, Noel D'cunha

Sridhar POPS of Leo Burnett re-examines the array of digital print samples

Samples on display for the Digital Printer of the Year Award

Bhavna Darira, vice president of Brand at Aditya Birla Group examines a print sample

A "classic" print sample

The spotlight is on those who make the news - the Newspaper Printer of the Year

Retail re-defined

Jury members discuss finer points of the judging criteria among themselves

Suresh Ramakrishnan, publisher of Haymarket India roll-up his sleeves in order to go through thousand print samples

Farooqui Fazal, packaging development manager, Heinz India, looks at the use of multiple media

Hemal Kapadia, the founder and design director, Olive Design from Kolkata examines a print sample

Gayatri Jayaraman of The Mint examines the tech-specs of an entry in great detail

Shormista Mukherjee, the founder of an uber-cool agency, Rickshaw compares print samples

Paroma Sadhana, the production and design supervisor at Majlis looks at a work of art

Sachin Shardul and Noel D'cunha of PrintWeek India discuss the highlights of print with Vijay Sawant of Ogilvy

Geetanjali Bhattacharji, the chief executive officer, Spatial Access casts an eye at the range of POP work

This creative entry in the Point of Purchase category rendered a 3D view

Indrajit Sen, the executive director, Indian Outdoor Advertising Association and Shormishta Mukherjee, the founder of Rickshaw

Fawzan Husain, turns his photographic eye on a print sample

Runali Sawant of HUL, Soma Roy of Marico and Yogesh Bambal of Cadbury with samples

Home furniture fabricated out of corrugated board stands tall in the Innovation category

The architectural sample of the White House gave the jury a panoramic view of the real one in detail