CHRISTCHURCH, Friday: Digital printing company Ovato NZ has won the Magazine category at this year’s Pride In Print Awards for its “stunning” production of Nadia Autumn.
The judges said the quality of production was so high they initially thought the magazine had been printed on a sheetfed press.
“A number of sections, folded and trimmed in line and perfect bound, and exceptional colours throughout,” they said.
“Printing at high speed was very well controlled in terms of the variables – ink and water, the lay and registration. This is about as good as it gets for web offset printing.”
Describing the job as “very tricky”, Ovato’s Craig Harrison said he and team were delighted to have delivered an end product that the client was “absolutely thrilled” with.
“The technical aspects of this job lay around the speed of production – we ran the press at 70,000 copies per hour and had to produce five sections plus a laminated cover, perfect bound and delivered – all within five days,”
“The technical aspects of this job lay around the speed of production – we ran the press at 70,000 copies per hour and had to produce five sections plus a laminated cover, perfect bound and delivered – all within five days,” he said.
“Another challenge of the 136-page plus four-page-cover magazine was that the stock itself was an offset grade printed by a web press at very high speed.”
Harrison said it was a pleasure to be involved in a project that combined the highest quality of production standards with sustainable inputs and was also actually a “great read”.
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