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Great Lakes Integrated Receives 67 Print Excellence Awards
Cleveland, Ohio – January 18, 2011
Great Lakes Integrated is proud to announce it was recently awarded sixty-seven Print Excellence Awards from the Printing Industries of America serving Northern Kentucky and Ohio (PIANKO).
“The competition was tough this year as the quality of the entries continued to get better,” said PIANKO president Jim Cunningham. “The Print Excellence Awards are a mark of true craftsmanship. I congratulate all of our winners for their outstanding entries and for their success in meeting and exceeding the expectations of their clients.”
Each year PIANKO holds its signature event, the Print Excellence Awards, to recognize Ohio and northern Kentucky printers that demonstrated excellence in 34 categories. This year member companies submitted 445 printed pieces and three out-of-state expert judges ranked them in a regional competition. This year’s judges were Glenn Petry, Ken Eberhardt from Merrick Industries, and Karl Drewno from Heidelberg USA.
Of those 67 awards, Great Lakes Integrated received 23 Gold and 44 Silver awards for work ranging from an integrated marketing campaign for a national insurance company to a catalog for a leading manufacturer and distributor of plumbing tools and hardware. In the “Annual Report” category, Great Lakes Integrated was presented with six awards for its work with several world-class healthcare, insurance and manufacturing organizations. Other highlights of the event included 8 silver awards for Great Lakes Integrated’s corporate communications pieces, 7 silver awards for its digital print work, and 3 silver awards for their corporate magazines and vanity publications.
Each of the gold award winners in the regional competition are entered in an association-wide competition for Best of Category and Best of Show prizes that will be awarded Monday, August 10, 2011 in conjunction with the Ohio State Fair.
Great Lakes Integrated was a recipient of the following Printing Excellence awards:
23 Gold Awards for its work on annual reports, brochures, magazines, pocket folders, specialties, corporate communications, books, calendars, catalogs and digital print work.
44 Silver Awards for outstanding achievements with printed invitations, books, annual reports, booklets, brochures, corporate communications, digital printing, magazines, newsletters, pocket folders, and specialties.
About Great Lakes Integrated
Based in northeast Ohio, Great Lakes Integrated - which celebrates its 80th anniversary this year - is comprised of three divisions: Great Lakes Print, a leading full-service printer; GLDirect, a MFSA certified database management and fulfillment center; and AKSESS, offering the latest technologies to provide instant Internet access to all brand-building assets. A proven leader and innovator in graphics communication and marketing support services, the Great Lakes Integrated helps communications professionals optimize their marketing communications investments.