Fujifilm invites entries for Innovation Print Awards contest
The competition is open to Fujifilm press owners across the globe.
FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Business Innovation Division, announced a call for entries to Fujifilm’s global Innovation Print Awards (IPA) contest. The IPA contest, designed to highlight and celebrate creative print projects printed using Fujifilm’s wide array of press solutions, is open to Fujifilm press owners across the globe.
“Fujifilm print service providers across the globe create incredible projects on a daily basis,” said Yuji Oki, general manager, FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Business Innovation Division. “Fujifilm’s Innovation Print Awards contest presents a great opportunity to be honored and recognized for the impressive work they’re doing, and to advance awareness of the print medium overall.”
Entrants can choose to submit their work in any of 20 categories, including wide-format signage, banners, and more. There will be a total of 39 winners from across the globe, including slots for a Best Innovation Award, 19 category winners, and 19 category runners-up.
Criteria considered by the panel of judges, comprised of Fujifilm Business Innovation leadership, will include:
- Output quality: Print and finishing quality
- Degree of innovation: Includes use of digital technology, use of unique substrates or the same materials in a new way
- Business effectiveness: A Successful business model, application led to business opportunities, and shelf appeal
- Overall creativity: Overall aesthetic, suitability of design, communication design, and use of materials and colors
The winning projects in their respective categories will be featured in Fujifilm’s IPA Winners Booklet, as well as across Fujifilm’s corporate social media channels. Winning projects will also be displayed at events where Fujifilm’s Business Innovation Division has presence, as well as at the company’s North American Graphics Innovation Hub in Hanover Park, Illinois.
“Our print services are world-class, and so are our customers,” said Oki. “We encourage all entrants to push their imaginations, and their Fujifilm products, to maximum capacity to create entries that we didn’t know were possible. Get creative with color, with embellishments, with substrates – we look forward to seeing your most innovative creations!”
Find more information and enter Fujifilm’s Innovation Print Awards here.
