Judges Pick 74 In-Print 2024 Winners

By Bob Neubauer

In-Print 2024 judges (from left) Nate Riggins, Mike Barnes, Kristen Hampton and Larry Clements.

On Monday March 18, the winners of the In-Print™ 2024 contest were selected by a panel of judges. After examining all 386 entries in the only printing contest exclusively for in-plants, judges picked 74 Gold, Silver and Bronze winners from 32 different in-plants.

The top winners this year were:

University of Oklahoma, with 10 total awards, including two Golds.
University of Texas at Austin, with six awards, including two Golds.
Iowa State University, with four awards, including two Golds.
Kilgore College, with four awards, in its first time entering the contest.

In-Print 2024 contest judges at work.

A number of in-plants won three awards: The Church of Scientology International, University of Virginia, Bloomberg, Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, Messiah College, and Bucknell University.

Judging took place at In-plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA) headquarters, in Kearney, Missouri. 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.

In-Print 2024 contest judges at work.

The alternating team of judges this year included:

Ben Fowler, Shelter Insurance
Kristen Hampton, State of Michigan
Christopher Donlon, Kohler Co.
Mike Barnes, Hunter Manufacturing
Theresa Hatcher, IPMA
Larry Clements, Redlands Community College, retired
Nate Riggins, EMC Insurance

After selecting the winners, the judges then picked two Best of Show winners 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.

From left: Bob Neubauer, Mike Barnes, Larry Clements, Theresa Hatcher, Ben Fowler, Kristen Hampton, Nate Riggins, and Christopher Donlon.

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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.