HP Print Excellence AwardsHP has just announced a new worldwide competition honouring graphic arts printing produced on HP Designjet, Indigo, Inkjet Web Press and Scitex systems, entitled HP Print Excellence Awards. It has issued a call for entries for this award which will be judged by an international panel of print experts who will select winners in 16 categories of commercial print, wide-format graphics and label and packaging applications. In addition to evaluating print quality, the HP Print Excellence Awards also will recognize innovative examples of environmentally responsible printing.

The HP Print Excellence Awards are free to enter. HP graphic arts customers can download entry details and forms at http://www.hp.com/go/printexcellenceawards.Entries are due by March 15, 2012. All the winners will be announced at an invitation-only gala event held during drupa 2012 next May in Düsseldorf, Germany. Select entries will be on display at HP's stand at drupa, in hall 4.

The competition has been designed to unify several existing regional and worldwide HP print quality awards into a single, comprehensive programme.

"The HP Print Excellence Awards will show how customers fully express their ingenuity, creativity and skill using HP solutions," said Christopher Morgan, Senior Vice President,  HP. "We look forward to seeing how our customers are advancing the analogue to digital transformation and achieving new levels of colour quality and innovation."

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