As with every year at Graphitec, the world’s leading graphic arts exhibition, the Graphitec’Experts jury awarded 14 prizes and a special mention to 14 exhibitors whose products were judged to be the most striking, innovative or useful to consumers.

The Graphitec’Experts jury was made up, as it is every year, of recognised professionals in the field of graphic communications, representing the world of offset and digital printers as well as principals, buyers, publishers and various communications agencies.

The members of this panel of experts based their awards on a number of criteria:

  • Is this the first national or international public presentation of the product?
  • Is the product of particular technical interest?
  • Does the product have any particularly innovative or new technical features?
  • As well as the benefits of using the product for customers and other end users.

All these points are carefully examined for each of the products presented by the brands present, and here is the list of winning companies for this edition of Graphitec 2017:

In the finishing, converting and finishing category

5 products from five different brands were decorated. The award-winning brands were GIC, MGI DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, PITNEY BOWES, RBS France and SIPROUDHIS for their products featuring ease of use, reliability, precision and, in some cases, compact size.

In the digital printing category

AGFA GRAPHICS, BRISE, NORMAPRINT, RICOH and RISO France are the brands that have been selected for their versatile, innovative, simple and useful machines for both private individuals and professionals.

In the category of solutions for cross media, web and mobile applications and graphic design

AQUAFADAS, DARIUS, SNAPPRESS for the new possibilities offered by their various solutions.

And finally, in the category of routing, distribution, logistics and more

PITNEY BOWES has the luxury of being awarded a prize for the second time at the show by presenting an inserting system that can be perfectly integrated into a production chain and offers a wide range of functions.

An interesting innovation for printers

This edition of Graphitec 2017 was also an opportunity to discover the ‘Livre objet’ from Clément. Clément is a family-run business that used to be a manufacturer of large-format finishing and printing machines, and is now run by Philippe Clément, son of the company’s founder.

The book object is in fact a book whose pages have been cut out in a very precise way so that an object can be slipped inside. “The text becomes the product’s medium. It supports its purpose”, explained Christian Guittonneau and Patricia Delayat, the company’s technical sales staff.

There are a huge number of ways in which this new product can be used, and it’s easy to imagine, for example, a small booklet presenting a perfume with a sample of the product inside.

The marketing possibilities offered by this innovation should be numerous and useful in many ways, so we can imagine this invention being used very quickly by a number of major brands.

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