OPIA Annual Awards competition deadline for submissions is March 30

The Ontario Printing & Imaging Association (OPIA) Excellence in Print Awards is back for another outstanding year! Get your best work ready and enter this renowned print competition by Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 5 pm (no deadline extensions). Last year, the OPIA awarded over 30 category winners and another four top awards for the best of each section. This competition is the best way to have your work recognized by your peers and clients. Successful members use their wins to market themselves and attract new business. By entering the OPIA Excellence In Print Awards competition, you can match your work up to the best printers in the province. All winners in each category are then automatically sent by the OPIA to the Printing Industries of America (PIA) for their Premier Print Awards competition. So, with your award entries at the OPIA, you actually have two chances to win.
Competition rules

1. Choose your best printed pieces from all your work produced between April 2, 2015 and March 15, 2016.
2. Only finished entries will be accepted.
3. Please do NOT mount entries.
4. TWO COPIES of each entry, along with a completed entry form and ID tags must be submitted for each entry. All entries become the property of the OPIA and are not returnable.
5. Select the appropriate category for each entry.
6. Remember that you can enter the same printed piece in more than one category as long as you include a separate copy of the piece for each category entered, along with the appropriate ID tag.
7. The cost is $50 per entry plus HST.
8. The competition is open to OPIA members only.

Any questions concerning the competition, including forms and where to deliver your entries, should be directed to Sue Bryant at the OPIA – telephone: (905) 602-4441 or e-mail: sbryant.opia@on.aibn.com.
We’ll follow-up right here in the next week or two with more information, including the location, date and times of the awards banquet. Good luck to all those entering!