Gold award winner
European Printer 2004
As the first ever Berlin printing company, MEDIALIS Offsetdruck GmbH has won a gold medal at the “Sappi European Printer Of The Year” awards.
On 5th May 2004, the night before the opening of the DRUPA print media fair, MEDIALIS Offsetdruck was awarded the prestigious “2004 Sappi European Printer Of The Year” prize.
The winners of the annual awards presented by Sappi, the world's largest producer of coated fine paper, are chosen by an international jury of independent experts from the printing industry in honour of the technical excellence of European printers.
This year, the winners were chosen from 1,812 entries submitted by 782 printers from 34 countries.
Out of the total of 38 award winning entries, the judges selected six gold medal winners.
In the magazines category, MEDIALIS won the gold medal for the “Squint 0/2 night” magazine.
Squint 0/2 night
The “Sappi European Printer Of The Year” prize is awarded by Sappi (South African Pulp & Paper Industries), the world's largest producer of coated fine paper. This prize has been awarded annually in Europe since 1993. Any printing company can submit entries, which must be products printed on SAPPI paper. An independent judging panel selects the gold, silver and bronze award winners from among the entries, competing in seven different categories.
Gold award winner
European Printer 2005
MEDIALIS Offsetdruck again awarded a gold medal.
MEDIALIS Offsetdruck has repeated its 2004 achievement and has been awarded the “SAPPI European Printer Of The Year” title for 2005.
The winners of the 2005 Sappi European Printer of the Year awards were announced at a glamorous evening gala in the fascinating Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. 45 printers from Europe and the Middle East were awarded gold, silver and bronze medals in nine categories.
For the first time in the European award’s 12-year history, printers from Sweden, Russia, Kuwait and Lebanon were among the winners. German printers were successful in each of the nine categories.
A total of 2,609 entries from 35 countries were submitted, which is more than in previous years. The independent jury, consisting of experts and dignitaries from the printing industry, pointed out that it had been a hard choice due to the extremely high standard of this year’s entries, and added that printing quality had reached an unprecedented level, in particular in the categories brochures, books and printers’ own promotion.
The winners of the annual awards presented by Sappi, the world's largest producer of coated fine paper, are chosen by an international jury of independent experts from the printing industry in honour of the technical excellence of European printers.
From the 45 award-winning entries submitted by the various printing companies, the judges selected nine gold award winners.
Squint 04|FLORAL
In the magazines category, MEDIALIS won the gold medal for the “Squint 0/4 FLORAL“ magazine.The “Squint 04/FLORAL” magazine, containing compositions by various photographers on themes from the world of music and theatre, was printed on a four-colour sheet-fed offset press on Sappi paper “Magno Pearl” 135 g/m² and 300 g/m². This entry was submitted by the paper supplier, Deutsche Papier.
The jury remarked that the magazine was of excellent design and printing quality and excelled due to its expert selection of paper. Pre-press work was excellent, too, and FM screening was the perfect solution for the photographs involved.
The nine gold medal winners will be taking part in the international awards in Shanghai in October 2005.