In-Print Contest Judging Monday

By Bob Neubauer

At the 2023 In-Print contest judging, Mike Barnes, Bobbi Francis, Forrest McGuire, Larry Clements, and Nate Riggins examine entries.

The entries are all in, the judges are ready and on Monday the winners of In-Print 2024 will be selected at last. Nearly 400 entries were submitted this year, ranging in complexity from stationery to magazines and annual reports. Each one of them will be carefully inspected on Monday by a panel of five judges, who will assemble at In-plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA) headquarters, in Kearney, Missouri.

Judges examine posters during the judging of In-Print 2023.

This year’s contest featured eight new categories, bringing the total up to 36. Six categories were open only to in-plants with 10 or fewer employees.

Once the winners from all 36 categories are picked on Monday, two Best of Show winners will be selected from all Gold-winning pieces: one for offset entries and one for non-offset. Those grand prize winners will be revealed at the IPMA 2024 conference in Des Moines, Iowa, in June.

The judges this year will be:

Ben Fowler, Shelter Insurance
Kristen Hampton, State of Michigan
Christopher Donlon, Kohler Co.
Mike Barnes, Hunter Manufacturing
Theresa Hatcher (IPMA)

Also helping with judging when they are not photographing the winners will be Larry Clements (Redlands Community College, retired) and Nate Riggins (EMC Insurance). Bob Neubauer, editor of In-plant Impressions, will also be there to help the process go smoothly.

Watch In-plant Impressions’ Facebook page for live updates on Monday. The list of winners will be on our website in the weeks ahead. Here's what judging looked like last year:

0 Comments

View Comments

Bob Neubauer Author's page

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.