Take Your Shot —Polischuk

One of my favorite days of the year is when we host the judging for packagePRINTING’s Excellence Awards competition. I should qualify this, because it’s a favorite work day. I still like Christmas better.

On our “judgement day,” several industry representatives from a broad spectrum of package-printing segments come to our office to scrutinize the fine details of hundreds of entries. This is no easy task because the Excellence Awards competition covers virtually every segment of package printing. The judges move from tags and labels and flexible packaging to folding cartons and corrugated materials. Within these categories, they compare and contrast entries that are printed using the major technologies—flexo, offset, gravure, screen, and digital, along with combinations of everything there is.