Top 39 print moments on Jury Day

Welcome to India's most comprehensive Print Awards, presented by PrintWeek India. Look at the exclusive print gallery which documents how the 26-member jury scored the 112 print firms who had submitted more than 300 entries.

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27 Aug 2015 | By PrintWeek India

Guaranteeing the perfect scores: The ladies of PrintWeek India who welcomed the jury members at the registration desk

The stage is set at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai. The same venue shall witness the Awards Night on 7 October where the show stopper is a rollicking comedy specially created for the print industry

112 print firms from all over India. 300 plus entries. 1500 plus samples

The power of print: An eclectic mix of coated and uncoated to increase impact and provide a tactile look and feel

Jury members are welcomed to the Judgement Day by Ramu Ramanathan, editor of PrintWeek India

Jury members of Group D being briefed by Tanvi Parekh, online editor of PrintWeek India. They judged the following categories: Fine Art, Industrial Product, Innovative, Wide-Format Printer

Noel D'cunha, managing editor, supervises the jury members of Group B (Creative Repro, Labels, Packaging and Screen Printer)

Priya Raju is the leader of a creatively inclined Group C (Brochure & Catalogue, Digital Photo Album, Digital, Direct Mail and Social Stationery)

No bookish knowledge in Group A (Book Printer, Cross media, Magazine Printer, Newspaper and PUR Book Maker)

Books are changing. More and more companies are publishing specialist titles. The Jury members were impressed with the pushing of boundaries, be it with materials or processes

Hemant Randive of FCB Ulka Advertising admires the samples. He said, "We print offset at 300lpi, we print digital at 2400dpi, we have the ISO standards, so our print is as good as you will get anywhere in the world."

A good impression ... Be it: innovations or printed t-shirts

Sheetal Dandekar of Lupin Pharma examines the best samples

Ashwini Deshpande of Elephant Design, "Enjoying the annual print pilgrimage"

Ajay Bapat of Emcure Pharma; the head of packaging development

Ritam Banerjee of Ritam Banerjee Studio liked the simple design and premium print finish

Ajay Takalkar scrutinises the entries in the competitive category of Fine Art Printer and Innovative Printer. He said, he was looking for retouching, colour balancing and fantastic reproduction of images. He said the high points included tri-tone images throughout, inline gloss varnish to images and cloth-wrapped front and back boards

Yatish Surana of Stuff India studies the detail. He was impressed with the dense black on monochrome imagery

Naju Hirani of Marg Publications, "Enjoyed being a part of this prestigious event; plus I learnt a lot."

'Wide-format print that makes you go OOH' felt Deepapriyadarshini Ankalikar of IOAA, who among other things are mapping the high-growth Rs 2500 crore industry

The three wise men: Huzefa Kanorwala of Ctrl M Print Management; Noel D'cunha, the Sunday Column man; and Amit Saurkar of Heinz India

Dipankar Sanyal of Madison OOH saw work that ranged from huge displays to multi-part display packs with scalable window vinyls and free-standing units printed across digital and screen on up to five substrates

Rajat Mehta of Yes Bank felt the Awards proved what’s possible when Indian printers take real pride in their work

A special wedding card which is part of the USD40 billion wedding industry in India

Sanjay Tripathi of HDFC and KV Sridhar (POPS) feel, "All industries use the philosophy of 70% money with three shifts, 20% of them do quality work. Only 10% do R&D due to which there is innovation. That's how Pragati does new things

A dialogue on what constitutes great packaging. Does it mean short shelf life and lower value? Or longevity of impact and lustrous looks?

The Most Popular Entry: Almost all the jury members flocked to this brilliant example of children furniture created from corrugation board

Praful Akali of Medulla Communications looks at a job with a cold-foil process and bold contrasting colours

All about Print Intelligence: The jury members judge the samples, together

Paulose Parakkadan of R-Pac India felt, "With post-press standards on the rise in packaging, today's print buyers are not merely looking at China as a source"