Marilyn Monroe

One of my favorite days of the year is when we host the judging for packagePRINTING’s Excellence Awards competition. I should qualify this, because it’s a favorite work day. I still like Christmas better. On our “judgement day,” several industry representatives from a broad spectrum of package-printing segments come to our office to scrutinize the fine details of hundreds of entries. This is no easy task because the Excellence Awards competition covers virtually every segment of package printing. The judges move from tags and labels and flexible packaging to folding cartons and corrugated materials. Within these categories, they compare and contrast entries that are

As a unanimous vote among packagePRINTING’s 2006 Excellence Award judges, Hayward, Calif.-based Rotocolor’s “Marilyn Merlot” wine label is this year’s Best of Show honoree for its superior flexographic printing. “It really shows where flexo can go,” said Roy Webb, national sales manager, Mark Andy. “It has fantastic quality and could sit side-by-side with the lithographic print.” “The piece is exceptional and shows how far along flexo has come,” said Bob Waddington, general manager, UVitec Printing Ink. “The skin tones are amazing.” And the skin tones are important on this piece, because this is a wine label which garners a famous photo of Marilyn

Download the 2007 packagePRINTING Excellence Awards nomination form. As a unanimous vote among packagePRINTING’s 2006 Excellence Awards judges, Hayward, Calif.-based Rotocolor’s “Marilyn Merlot” wine label is this year’s Best of Show honoree for its superior flexographic printing. “It really shows where flexo can go,” said Roy Webb, national sales manager, Mark Andy. “It has fantastic quality and could sit side-by-side with the lithographic print.” This entry was also a first place winner in the Wine Labels - Flexo (Process) category. “The piece is exceptional and shows how far along flexo has come,” said Bob Waddington, general manager, UVitec Printing Ink. “The skin tones are