Mondi, Premier Paper and UK printer, Apple Print, collaborate for the Digital Printer Awards

Vienna, Aug 22nd, 2012 ─ International paper and packaging producer Mondi is working together with Apple Print & Creative of Newbury and The Premier Paper Group, the UK’s leading independent paper distributor, on a submission for the prestigious Digital Printer Awards. Organised by Whitmar Publishing, the Digital Printer Awards recognise innovation, creativity and excellence in digital print.

Apple Print is a well-established business offering a full printing service including lithographic, digital and large format with a fantastic creative studio on-site.

Andrew Watts, Joint Managing Director of Apple Print, commented: “We are delighted to be invited to participate in this exciting initiative with Premier Paper and Mondi.  We are a highly talented team with over 20 years of experience within the design and marketing industry and welcome the opportunity to have our success recognised through the Digital Printer Awards 2012.”

 “Working together with The Premier Paper Group and Apple Print, who has expertise both in creative design and digital printing is an exciting opportunity. This collaboration combined with Apple Print’s in-house creative team will bring out the best in paper and print technology and innovative design,” said Johannes Klumpp, Marketing and Sales Director for Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper.

The winners of this year’s Digital Printer Awards will be announced in November 2012.

Why We Like Working With Apple Print

Here at Jokers' Masquerade we have been working with Apple Print on various hard copy offline marketing initiatives for the last few years. We're also based in Newbury so the fact that Apple are local was an important attribute for us. We wanted to work with a local company so we would be able to receive and review the proofs quickly and also support another business located within the same area.

One of our first projects that was honestly handled with tact and probably just the right amount of urgency was a magazine style brochure called Visage that we added to all orders that were placed on our website. We have since worked with Apple Print to produce header cards for products as well as various fancy dress themed leaflets and flyers.

Apple Print and Creative Celebrates 25 Years of Print

Thursday August 11^th was the date of the big 80s themed fancy dress celebration to mark 25 years of the business successfully creating and crafting printed materials. Apple very kindly invited Kate and Donna to attend. Both wore our Space Invader fancy dress costume to the event held at the Faraday Road studio. Both received various requests to walk sideways in homage to the computer game.

Apple Print actually launched their new website at the event, which is a nice new modern look. In composing this blog post I actually asked Nigel, our resident graphic designer how he feels about using the Apple website to which I received an unusually concise response saying “It certainly conveys their services clearly, you can find your way around the site easily. I also think their friendliness comes across through the site” What a nice chap. Kate, who was no longer wearing the Space Invader costume at the time of being quizzed shared that “Its very quick and simple to upload artwork to their client area”. That certainly sounds like two very positive reviews of the new website.

Here's a photo from the celebration:

We've worked previously with both Andrew Watts and Barbra Frost and both were very helpful, they provided a personal and professional touch and make us feel very confident that they are on top of things. That personal touch and the willingness to go just  a little further is why we like working with Apple.

This was a guest post by Jokers' Masquerade fancy dress, where they are currently fighting over which is the best new Halloween costume.