The EDP Awards, which reward printer and associated manufacturers for innovation in their research and design, will be presented at Drupa on 8 May. Only products launched into the print industry in the 12 months leading to 28 February 2012 will be considered with the winners chosen by an international panel of independent print and print software experts. The shortlist will be announced in April and the winners announced at the awards ceremony during Drupa.
An EDP Award is the industry’s highest recognition of a product’s value and is synonymous with innovation and quality. Evaluation is based on innovation. The EDP Technical Committee judge the products on the value of the new technical abilities they offer. This can be innovation in the technology that improves speed, quality, usability and functionality or reduces environmental impact as well as cost to the user.
Head of the Technical Committee (and Image Reports publisher) Chris Cooke said: “We are delighted to hold our annual EDP Association Awards at Drupa this year. Our partnership further highlights the importance the industry places on an independent accolade that we can rely on. The EDP Association is very happy that the organisers of Drupa have chosen to work with us to help support the digital print industry in whatever way we can.”
Drupa is the biggest printing trade exhibition in the world and will be held at Messe Düsseldorf 3-16 May 2012. Monika Kissing, manager, press and public relations for Drupa said: “The hosting of the EDP Awards in the ‘drupacube’ (Halls 7.0 and 7a) at Drupa 2012 complements perfectly the theme of using printed products for communication empowered by marketing. The criteria on which the product entries are judged for the Awards reinforce the concept of the drupacube itself; to provide a ‘global showroom’ for innovative applications that benefit the end user, the community, the manufacturer and the environment.”
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