Judges Pick 74 In-Print 2024 Winners
In-Print 2024 judges (from left) Nate Riggins, Mike Barnes, Kristen Hampton and Larry Clements.
On Monday March 18, the winners of the In-Print™ 2024 contest were selected by a panel of judges. After examining all 386 entries in the only printing contest exclusively for in-plants, judges picked 74 Gold, Silver and Bronze winners from 32 different in-plants.
The top winners this year were:
- University of Oklahoma, with 10 total awards, including two Golds.
- University of Texas at Austin, with six awards, including two Golds.
- Iowa State University, with four awards, including two Golds.
- Kilgore College, with four awards, in its first time entering the contest.
In-Print 2024 contest judges at work.
A number of in-plants won three awards: The Church of Scientology International, University of Virginia, Bloomberg, Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, Messiah College, and Bucknell University.
Judging took place at In-plant Printing and Mailing Association (IPMA) headquarters, in Kearney, Missouri. This year’s contest featured eight new categories, bringing the total up to 36. Six categories were open only to in-plants with 10 or fewer employees.
The alternating team of judges this year included:
- Ben Fowler, Shelter Insurance
- Kristen Hampton, State of Michigan
- Christopher Donlon, Kohler Co.
- Mike Barnes, Hunter Manufacturing
- Theresa Hatcher, IPMA
- Larry Clements, Redlands Community College, retired
- Nate Riggins, EMC Insurance
After selecting the winners, the judges then picked two Best of Show winners from all Gold-winning pieces: one for offset entries and one for non-offset. Those grand prize winners will be revealed at the IPMA 2024 conference in Des Moines, Iowa, in June.
From left: Bob Neubauer, Mike Barnes, Larry Clements, Theresa Hatcher, Ben Fowler, Kristen Hampton, Nate Riggins, and Christopher Donlon.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 170 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
