The 2025 Pinnacle Product Awards Program Now Open for Entries

PRINTING United Alliance, the most comprehensive member-based printing and graphic arts association in North America, announces that the 2025 Pinnacle Product Awards program is now open for entries through April 11, 2025. The Pinnacle Product Awards recognize products that improve or advance the printing industry with exceptional contributions in quality, capability, and productivity. Information about the program, open exclusively to Alliance Supplier members, can be found at: https://pinnacleawards.printing.org/.

2025 Pinnacle Awards Categories

The Pinnacle Awards program is a competition created for manufacturers with three main categories: Output devices; Non-Output devices; and Technology, defined as follows:

Pinnacle Product Awards – Output
The Pinnacle Product Award – Output category recognizes output printing products with the tightest delta E to the target. These use the latest Maxwell color management software and X-Rite or Barbieri measuring devices.

Pinnacle Product Awards – Non-output
The Pinnacle Product Award – Non-output category recognizes products that improve or advance the printing industry with exceptional contributions to quality, capability, and productivity.

Pinnacle Product Awards – Technology
The Pinnacle Product Award – Technology category honors the development of technologies predicted to significantly impact commercial printing, digital textiles, packaging, screen printing, wide format, and related industries.

Pinnacle Awards Program Earns Top Marks with Winners

In 2024, the Pinnacle Awards program recognized 76 noteworthy, winning technology products. Winning the Pinnacle Award is a powerful asset for any business, providing critical recognition and validation, and demonstrating one’s outstanding accomplishments to peers and customers alike.

“Winning a Pinnacle Award is a game-changer—it puts your innovation in the spotlight and gets your work in front of the entire industry,” says Lindsay Ferrari, PRINTING United Alliance Program Administrator. “With spotlight media coverage, a dedicated awards gallery, recognition at PRINTING United Expo, and so much more; it’s an incredible opportunity to gain visibility and credibility that helps your business stand out.”

This 2024 awards winner comments on the value of the Pinnacle Award and how it helped strengthen their business:

“Internally, we knew the Fedrigoni 12-Year Cast Ri-Jet C50 Film and Adhesive Technology was a next generation development and game-changer for the 3D vehicle wrap industry, making it easier, faster, and longer-lasting than any product currently available,” says Lawrence Delesio, Business Development Manager, DAF Products. “At DAF Products and Fedrigoni Self Adhesives, the Pinnacle Award was a validation [of] our product design and manufacturing by independent industry experts when compared to the current competitive products in the market. This award added to the customer interest to test a revolutionary cast film. Once they tried it there was no looking back.”

How to Enter

Pinnacle Award product submissions can be made online at https://pinnacleawards.printing.org/. Winners will be acknowledged across various Alliance channels including a feature in the coveted PRINTING United Journal, across Alliance media brand platforms, and during PRINTING United Expo, taking place this year from October 22-24 in Orlando, Florida.

Join the Alliance to Engage in Leading Industry Programs
For more information about joining the Alliance and how to take advantage of participating in exclusive membership programs such as the Pinnacle Product Awards — as well as having direct access to leading industry experts, services, and resources, visit www.printing.org/membership.

About PRINTING United Alliance
PRINTING United Alliance is the most comprehensive member-based printing and graphic arts association in North America, comprised of the industry’s vast communities. The Alliance serves industry professionals across market segments with preeminent education and training via iLEARNING+, workshops, events, research, government and legislative representation, safety, and environmental sustainability guidance, as well as resources from our leading media brands – Printing Impressions, Packaging Impressions, Wide-format Impressions, In-plant Impressions, Apparelist, and Promo Impressions. A division of PRINTING United Alliance, Idealliance is a global leader in standards training and certification for printing and graphic arts operations across the entire industry supply chain.

PRINTING United Alliance also produces the PRINTING United Expo, the most influential days in printing. The expansive display of technology and supplies, education, programming, and services are showcased to the industry at large, and represents all market segments in one easily accessed place.