Arjowiggins Creative Papers award the first Academy of Certified Printers diplomas in Aisa

The Academy of Certified Printers was created by Arjowiggins Creative Papers in order to guide printers to better know and print our creative papers. The programme brings together high-end printers from around the world who aspire to achieve the best printing quality on our papers.

The programme has first been launched in Asia in 2016, with printers located in Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. Printers were selected on their proven ability to print on creative papers using a variety of printing and finishing technique, and on their experience working with demanding customers.

Arjowiggins Creative Papers is planning to extend the programme to new creative printers in 2017, in the Middle-East, Europe and the rest of the world.

The participant’s task

In order to participate, the printer’s task is to reproduce a print job. The piece combines 4 different printed techniques - offset, screen printing, hot foil stamping and blind embossing - and should be reproduced on a selection of our papers representative of the colours, textures and finishes available within our range.

To execute the job at hand, each printer received the necessary supplies: a toolbox containing instructions, print references, ready-to-print files, and dies for embossing and hot foil stamping, as well as gold and silver foils and of course paper. Die manufacture h+m provided the embossing and hot stamping dies, while Kurz provided the foils directly to each printer.

Both in-house experts and print partners are made available to assist printers seeking advice at any time during the process.

Certifying the printers

Once a printer has completed their task, they are to send their work back to Arjowiggins Creative Papers. The Jury members evaluate carefully the printed pieces according to the overall print rendering and consider a list of criteria such as precise registration, crisp embossing reliefs, precise foil details, smooth solids and bright colours on creative papers.

Printers who succeed are awarded the Academy of Certified Printers diploma. They are listed in our online directory of Certified Printers and appear in the Certified Printers register which is communicated internally and with our merchant sales force.

To date, the Jury members have convened twice in order to review the participants’ work, and awarded printers from Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore the coveted title of Certified Printer. Arjowiggins Creative Papers would like to congratulate CA Printing Co. Ltd and Green Production (Overseas) Group of Hong Kong, Hoffset Printing SDN BHD of Malaysia, and Colourscan Print Co Pte Ltd, Kin Yiap Press Pte Ltd, Pixel Tech Pte Ltd and Print Dynamics (S) Pte Ltd of Singapore.

In order to congratulate the first Certified Printers of the Academy, Christophe Balaresque (Luxury Brands and Marketing Director at Arjowiggins Creative Papers) will be travelling from France to Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore in February 2017. He will be visiting each printer and awarding them their highly-deserved diplomas in person.

Find our Certified Printers and contact them directly through our online directory:
https://arjowigginscreativepapers.com/en/printing/academy/