The list of finalists for the prestigious 2024 ProPrint Awards Printer 50 category has been announced as well as revised rules for this year’s peer-voted judging process.

A record number of nominations have been received for executives from the Australian printing industry that will become judges for this year’s Printer 50 event.

For the first time this year, judges can only vote for people working for other organisations – voting for colleagues from the same organisation will not be permitted and these votes will be removed during the auditing process.

Self-judging, whereby judges vote for themselves, is already not permitted and has been in place for many years. Any judges that vote for themselves, will have these specific votes removed during the auditing process and the votes will not be allocated to another finalist.

Judging will take place from Monday 30 September and close on Wednesday 2 October.

Judges are requested to vote for their top 20 finalists. 20 points are allocated to each first preference selection, 19 points are awarded to the second selection and so on.

The winner of the Printer 50 is awarded based on a ‘first past the post’ system – the finalist with the highest number of total votes from all judges, once the votes are tallied by the auditors.

All judges will receive a random order of finalists to prevent any bias in voting.

These changes have been introduced based on feedback from the industry and will ensure that the Printer 50 delivers the most transparent result for all winners and remains the most prestigious awards event in the industry.

Any questions regarding the judging process and finalists, please contact Shaughan Woodcock – shwoodcock@intermedia.com.au

Tickets for the ProPrint Awards are now on sale and will sell out. Click here to purchase tickets to the event held at Shangri-La Sydney on 25 October.

The finalists for the 2024 ProPrint Awards Printer 50 category are:

• Aaron Lusch, General Manager, Platypus Print Packaging
  
• Adam Bowey, Prepress Manager, Omnigraphics Australia
  
• Adam Middleton, Director, Mint Imaging
  
• Adam Parnell & Andy Fryer, Directors, Easy Signs
  
• Aleisha Gill, Owner, Kwik Kopy Eagle Farm
  
• Andrew Crump, Operations Director, Peacock Bros
  
• Andrew Hall, Managing Director, Factory One
  
• Andrew Reynolds, Specialist Technical Trainer, Note Printing Australia
  
• Angelo Varnakulasingham, Senior Overseer, Corrective Services Industries Print
  
• Baden Kirgan, Managing Director, Planet Press
  
• Ben Browning, Managing Director, 1800 Projects
  
• Ben Carroll, Managing Director, Velflex
  
• Bokka Boothby, Director, Blak Hammer
  
• Calli McCool, QLD State Sales Manager, MMT Print
  
• Christian Middleton, Managing Director, Cloud Print Group
  
• Christopher Dean, Group Training Officer, Multi-Color Corporation
  
• Cliff Brigstocke, CEO – Production & Distribution, IVE Group
  
• Clinton Daley, Managing Director, Valiant Press
  
• Dan Bodey, Production Manager, Boom Studios
  
• Daniel Lamont, Production Manager, Lamont Print + Signs
  
• Danny Jessen, Owner, Slimline Warehouse
  
• Darren Delaney, General Manager, Allkotes
  
• David Sue, Managing Director, Faast Print
  
• David Walton, CEO, Omnigraphics Australia & MMT Print
  
• Dayne Nankervis, CEO, CMYKhub
  
• Dean Boceski, Managing Director, Rainbow Industries
  
• Dean Wright, Managing Director, ADS
  
• Debbie Burgess & John Bright, Joint Managing Directors, Bright Print Group
  
• Dominic Borrello, Co-Founder, ImageBox Group
  
• Ewen Donaldson, Director, Vivad
  
• Francis Tohill, Head of Prepress, Mint Imaging
  
• Frank Mezo, Managing Director, Mezographic
  
• Gerard Mudford, Chief Operations Officer, Omnigraphics
  
• Glenn Moffatt, Production Manager, Cactus Imaging
  
• Holly Masters, Director, Morgan Printing
  
• James FitzGerald, Production Manager, Omnigraphics
  
• James Sultana, Owner, Grand Print Services
  
• James Taylor, Director, Taylor’d Press
  
• Jamie & Jason Xuereb, Co-Founders, Mediapoint
  
• Jarrod Whyte, General Manager – Sales, MMT Print
  
• Jason Kirk, National Project Manager, MMT Print
  
• Jason Turvill, Operations Manager, Easy Signs
  
• Kameel King, Production Manager, MMT Print
  
• Karen Lawler, Sales Manager, Cactus Imaging
  
• Keith Ferrel, General Manager & Operations, Cactus Imaging
  
• Kenneth Beck-Pedersen & Peter Musarra, Co-Directors, Carbon8
  
• Kirsten Taylor, Director, Taylor’d Press
  
• Kirsty & Luke Woodhead, Owners, Breen Printing
  
• Leon Wilson, Director/Passionate Print Geek, Revolution Print
  
• Lisa Crellin, CFO, MMT Print
  
• Marcus Marchant, CEO, Vistaprint
  
• Mariano Imbrioscia, Operations Production Manager, Vivad
  
• Marty West, Managing Director, Blueprint Digital
  
• Matt Aitken, CEO, IVE Group
  
• Melissa Marshall, Director, Signarama Tuggerah
  
• Michael Hawkins, General Manager, Hawk Print
  
• Michael Jenkins, Director, Little Print
  
• Michael Nankervis, Managing Director, Onpack
  
• Nicholas Creevey, Production Manager, Mint Imaging
  
• Nigel Spicer, General Manager, Cactus Imaging
  
• Nina Nguyen, Founder, Pakko
  
• Paul Wilcockson, Production Director, JCDecaux Group
  
• Pranil Chandra, Head of Sales, Next Printing
  
• Robert Rae, Print & IT Systems, ImageBox Group
  
• Rodney Frost, CEO, Lamson Paragon Group
  
• Romeo Sanuri, Managing Director, Next Printing
  
• Samantha Bailey-Jensen, Director, Bailey Print Group
  
• Shane Britten, Executive General Manager ,IVE Group
  
• Simon Carmody, Managing Director, Spot Productions
  
• Simon Pugh, MD, QLM Group
  
• Stephen Lamont, Managing Director, Lamont Print + Signs
  
• Stephen Power, Print Manager, MSP Photography
  
• Steven Tindall, Project Manager, Mint Imaging
  
• Stuart Gittus, Print Manager, IVE Group
  
• Sue Waite, Sales Manager – Signage & Large Format, Kwik Kopy Australia
  
• Susan Davies, Chief Operating Officer, MSP Photography
  
• Troy Cavanagh, Sales Manager, ImageBox Group
  
• Yianni Moratidis, Director, Genr8 Printing

The 2024 ProPrint Awards would not be possible without the ongoing support of the event’s sponsors:  

Platinum sponsor
Durst Oceania

Gold sponsors
Ball & Doggett
FUJIFILM Australia
HP
IVE Group
Omnigraphics
Pozitive Sign & Graphic Supplies

Silver sponsors
ABC Copiers
Böttcher Systems
Cactus Imaging
EFI
Graph-Pak
Konica Minolta
Kurz Australia
Lamont Print + Signs
Lamson Paragon
Mimaki Australia
PAKKO
Ricoh Australia
Spicers Australia
Xeikon

Auditing partner
PKF

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