A First Look at In-Print 2021 Contest Gold Winners

By Bob Neubauer

With the winners of the In-Print 2021 contest now revealed, we wanted to shine a spotlight on some of the pieces honored with awards in the only printing contest exclusively for in-plants.

The judges picked 29 Gold winners this year, one from each category. Photographer Larry Clements, former manager of Redlands Community College’s in-plant, snapped photos of the winning pieces as soon as the other judges selected them. Here are a few of those shots.

4. Annual Reports-University of Oklahoma

Printed by the University of Oklahoma

22. Pocket Folders-University of Virginia

Printed by the University of Virginia

21. Direct Mail-Missouri State University

Printed by Missouri State University

20. Calendar-Excellus BlueCross BlueShield

Printed by Excellus BCBS

Printed by Bloomberg LP

Printed by Thrivent Financial

25. Special Projects-INkjet-Dye Sub-Iowa State University

Printed by Iowa State University

5. Flyers-Posters-University of Texas at Austin

Printed by the University of Texas at Austin

12. 10 Employees or Fewer-Flyers-University of West Alabama

Printed by the University of West Alabama

11. 10 Employees or Fewer-Booklets-Kohler Company

Printed by Kohler Co.

9. Special Projects-University of Missouri

Printed by the University of Missouri

8. Greeting Cards-Programs-University of Pittsburgh

Printed by the University of Pittsburgh

6. Calendars-Universitiy of Nebraska at Lincoln

Printed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln

27. Covid Management Project-Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Printed by Texas Tech University HSC

Printed by the Church of Scientology

Two of the top In-Print winners this year were the University of Oklahoma (14 awards) and the University of Texas at Austin (nine awards). Bloomberg LP, the Church of Scientology, Iowa State University and Thrivent Financial each won four awards.

Judges also picked Best of Show winners out of all the Gold-winning offset and non-offset pieces. All of the pieces shown here were in the running for these grand awards. Best of Show winners will be revealed (along with the 2020 Best of Show winners) at the 2022 IPMA conference in Buffalo, N.Y.

Here are all of this year’s winners:

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.

A First Look at In-Print 2021 Winners