Welcome to PrintWeek Awards 2023

PrintWeek Awards 2023

Recognising and rewarding excellence

The PrintWeek Awards was launched in 2009. Our aim: to celebrate the best in Indian packaging and print. The PrintWeek Awards scheme, PrintWeek Awards 2023, has once again gone live.

A little brief about the previous edition, the 12th edition of PrintWeek Awards 2022. The 2022 Awards saw 1,000+ samples in 362 entries from 112 companies nationwide. There were 44 worthy winners, which were judged by print buyers and specialists. Despite the Covid-19 crisis, the PrintWeek Awards 2022 were bigger and better than before.

As we have done in the past, we've compiled a few essential hints and tips to ensure you can secure glory at the PrintWeek Awards 2023.

For starters, you need to enter. As they say, you have got to be in it to win it. You can choose the correct category and submit the best examples of the four print jobs you have produced.

Less is best. Remember, on judgment day, the jury scrutinises hundreds of entries. Don't over-burden them with needless information.

Context is everything. The judges are experts in their field, but they may not know the print project for which the job has been entered. Inform them. Do not ignore the rules. For instance, when we ask for full technical specifications, please send them to us. This enables our jury to make a sound judgment on the performance of your print job. You won't make it to the shortlist if you don't provide enough information.

Remember, you are being judged for FOUR print jobs. This means you are not being judged for one single piece of print. So, please don't send us four samples of the same job. Remember: you have to impress the jury with a variety of print skills.

Finally, remember who is judging. It's your customers.

We have put the judging in the hands of an independent panel of experts, a line-up of big-name print buyers for our Quality Awards. This is your chance to sell to them. In fact, in the last couple of years, our jury members fixed appointments with key printers a day after judgment day.

Now, please select the best work of print off your shop floor and send it to us.

Good luck.
Ramu Ramanathan
Editor, PrintWeek/WhatPackaging?

Rules for the Awards

• You may enter as many different categories as you wish. Also, you may enter the same category more than once. The cost per entry is Rs 3,000 + 18% GST as applicable per category.

For example, if you enter for Label Printer of the Year, Packaging Converter of the Year Award (F&B), and SME Printer of the Year, once in each category, the cost will be 3,000 + 18% GST as applicable.

Please note, the fees will be Rs. 3,000 + 18% GST as applicable only until 31st July, after which it will be Rs. 4,000 + 18% GST as applicable..

• All material should be clearly labelled. If you enter the same jobs in more than one category, we will need a full set of examples and supporting material for each category entered.

• The decision of the judges is final, and no correspondence will be entered into.

• Confidentiality: All material will remain confidential to the judges, but Award-winning case-studies may be written and published in PrintWeek.

• In the case of the Performance Awards, the jury will consist of the editor and the PrintWeek official auditor, all of whom will, should you require, sign an agreement in order to guarantee the confidentiality of financially sensitive information.

• Entrants may mark sensitive parts of their entry, such as information contained in their balance sheet and profit and loss account as ‘Not for Publication’.

• All work entered must have been produced in India.

• Now, please select the best work of print off your shop floor and send it to us.