GPA kicks off 2015 Print & Design Contest

Specialty substrate leader GPA is now accepting entries for its 2015 Print and Design Contest. Now in its 10th year, the contest continues GPA’s tradition of honouring excellence and creativity in printing. “The competition has grown each year, yielding new and innovative examples of the opportunities available with GPA substrates. GPA will be accepting entries until October 23, 2015, giving participants over five and a half months to send in their entries.
For a printed piece to be eligible, it must be from an actual job or promotion that was printed by a GPA customer on a qualified GPA substrate within the past year. There is no entry fee, and participants are encouraged to submit as many entries as they like. To represent their growing product offering, this year GPA added a new category for wide-format substrates. This added category opens up an opportunity for an additional winner to bring home an award to their company.
Entries are accepted under eight different categories:

• Ultra Bak Plus & Ultra Bak Classic Pressure Sensitive Papers
• Ultra Film Non-Adhesive Synthetics
• Ultra Film Pressure Sensitive Synthetics
• Ultra Digital Papers 1: Coated & Uncoated Papers, C1S & C2S Boards
• Ultra Digital Papers 2: Specialty Fine Papers, Pre-Converted Substrates
• Ultra Digital Pressure Sensitive Papers
• Ultra Digital Synthetic Substrates
• NEW: GPA Wide-Format Substrates

A panel of industry experts will evaluate each entry based on uniqueness of design, application use, quality of printing and complexity of production. From each of the eight categories, a Best of Category winner will be selected, and then from those eight, one entry will be chosen as the Best of Show. Winners receive a framed copy of the winning piece, a monetary prize and industry recognition. This year’s winners will be announced in January of 2016.
To download a copy of the official rules and entry form, please visit www.askgpa.com and click on Events Calendar.