In-Print 2017 Contest Winners Revealed 33 In-plants Honored

By Bob Neubauer

In-Print 2017 was a contest with many surprises. Pieces that seemed shoe-ins found themselves superseded by entries with less obvious merits. Updated versions of pieces that have won Best of Show in past competitions did not even won a Bronze award this year. And in-plants that have traditionally dominated the contest made way for new leaders. As a result, the list of winners looks somewhat different this year, with a number of first-time winners receiving awards.

On Monday, five current and former in-plant managers met at IPMA headquarters in Kearney, Mo., to inspect the 415 entries. Of those 65 were singled out for awards, including 27 Gold awards. Winners hailed from 33 different in-plants. The top winners were:

The University of Texas at Austin: seven awards.
The University of Oklahoma: six awards.
Bloomberg LP: five awards.
Yale University: four awards.

Christopher Donlon and Ben Fowler.

Earning three awards were the Church of Scientology, the World Bank Group, the University of California-Davis and Excellus BlueCross BlueShield. Six other in-plants won two awards: UT Health, Briggs and Stratton, the University of North Texas, Blue Valley School District, Arizona State University and Oregon State University.

In addition to the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards, six pieces won Judges' Recognition awards. These were given to well done pieces that had some small flaw, but which impressed the judges enough that they felt they deserved recognition.

The In-Print contest is jointly sponsored by IPG and IPMA. Winners will be honored in a ceremony at the IPMA conference in Pittsburgh on June 13, at which point the Best of Show winners will be revealed. Click the links below to see who won:

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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.