PRINTING United Alliance has announced the winners of its 2020 Product of the Year competitions. More than 200 entries were submitted by PRINTING United Alliance member suppliers. Winners were named in 85 categories. To qualify, the entered products had to be available for sale in 2020.
Click here to view the complete list of winning entries.
Click here to visit the virtual gallery space in which all entries can be viewed.
“I’m proud to be part of this competition and to provide the opportunity for manufacturers to compete and show their products in this tough time,” said Ray Weiss, Director of Digital Print Programs, PRINTING United Alliance. “The competition was tight in many categories. Having a new judging format allowed the cream to rise to the top. Congratulations to all of the winners!”
For output devices, a printed target produced a scorecard that determine winners. Some of the output devices evaluated included: Direct to Garment Printers, Roll-to-Roll Dye-Sublimation Printers, Roll-to-Roll Solvent/Latex Printers, Tabletop Flatbed Printers, Hybrid Flatbed/Roll-to-Roll (UV/Latex), 3D Printers, Sceen Printing Manual Garment Presses, and Screen Printing Automatic Garment Presses.
Non-output categories included products such as inks, automation equipment, die cutting equipment, display hardware, laminates, laminators, and many types of media, incuding adhesive-backed, dye-sublimation transfer paper, dye-sublimation rigid material, heat transfer materials, rigid/synthetic media, and different types of textiles. These products were scored by a panel of judges who were experts within the category of products.
PRINTING United Alliance is the largest member-based printing and graphics association in the United States It was formed in 2020 by the merger of the Special Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) and Printing Industries of America (PIA).