HPI Earns First &
Second Place Awards

In case you haven’t heard the news yet, Howard Printing (HPI) won a first-place “Pinnacle” award and a second-place “Award of Recognition” in the inaugural Awards of Excellence Competition presented by the Printing Industries of New England (PINE).

PINE selected HPI for the “Pinnacle” (Best of Category) award for the Bears in the Valley Auction Catalog, which was produced for the Mount Snow Valley Chamber of Commerce. The catalog was designed by HPI in collaboration with Sarah Shippee, the Chamber point person. The principal photographer was Mark Linton of West Dover, with additional photographs supplied by Shippee.

HPI earned the second-place “Award of Recognition” in the Greeting Card/Invitation/Program/Postcard category for the Canal Street Redevelopment postcard, which was produced for SVE Associates, a private civil/survey engineering consulting firm with offices in Brattleboro, White River Junction, Rutland, Bennington, Keene, and Greenfield. The postcard was one of a series designed by Chuck Gibson Design of Hanover (NH). The photographer was John Douglas of Flying Squirrel Graphics.

The competition attracted 340 entries from 56 printing and imaging companies in New England. Awards were announced at a gala in November 2007, in Framingham (MA). Winners were featured in the December 2007 issue of the New England Printer & Publisher magazine.

Each entry was judged on its own merit in a category with similarly printed pieces. Judging criteria included: registration, clarity and neatness, sharpness of halftones and line drawings, richness and tonal qualities of color, paper and ink selection, ink coverage, difficulty of printing, effective contrast or softness, overall visual impact and bindery.

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