2019 Golden Cylinde Awads Call fo Enties The Gavue Association of the Ameicas conducts the Annual Golden Cylinde Awads Competition to pomote the gavue pocess and to povide pee ecognition fo technical achievement. The competition is designed to identify the Best of Gavue in each segment of the industy and to distinguish technical innovations. ENTRY DEADLINE: APRIL 26, 2019
The Golden Cylinde Awads categoies have been evamped to eflect the scope of Gavue Association of the Ameicas. While the categoies emain boad, subcategoies will affod the judges the latitude to awad moe than one winne, within a given categoy. Evey effot is being made to potect and enhance the pestige of these awads; est assued that all enties judged to be wothy of a Golden Cylinde Awad will eceive one! OPEN TO NON-MEMBERS! Who Should Ente The Golden Cylinde Awads Competition is open to all GAAmeicas membes and non-membes. All enties must be poduced duing the 2018 calenda yea and must use the gavue pocess. Enties must be poduction units against an ode, except fo the supplie innovation categoy. The entant must designate the Golden Cylinde Awad Categoy fo which they ae enteing, subject to final eview by the GAAmeicas Golden Cylinde Awads Committee. Enties in the technical innovation categoy must include complete desciption and suppoting evidence of the technical innovation, including a factual statement of suppot fom one o moe customes o uses. Enty Requiements Each enty must be accompanied by its own enty fom and enty fee. An item may be enteed in moe than one categoy, but an additional enty fom must be completed and the appopiate enty fee must be included. Enties using common gaphics o a theme thoughout a poduct line may be enteed individually o as a family (i.e., one enty consisting of a goup of pieces). Families ae limited to five pieces. Multiple and Family of Enties: Membes Non-Membes One to fou enties $155 each $305 each Five o moe enties $135 each $265 each Enty Fees: Each enty must be accompanied by the appopiate enty fee(s). Mutual enties must be accompanied by the appopiate enty fee fo each company taking pat in the mutual enty (i.e., design fim, engave, & pinte = 3 companies x enty fee). Family enties will be consideed one enty. GAAmeicas accepts Visa, MasteCad and Ameican Expess. Make checks payable to the Gavue Association of the Ameicas, Inc. Mutual Enties Mutual enties made by two o moe companies may be submitted, accompanied by the appopiate enty fee. Duplicate Enties If two companies submit the same poduct in the same categoy, the second enty to aive will be ejected and the company will be notified immediately. How to Ente 1. Accuately complete an enty fom fo each sepaate enty. Please pint legibly o type all equested infomation. Retain a copy of each enty fo you files. 2. All completed enties, including the enty fee, must be eceived by 5 p.m. Fiday, Apil 26, 2019. Awad Announcements Judging takes place in the sping. Winnes will be announced at the Golden Cylinde Awads Ceemony held duing the fall of 2019. Note: Attendance at the awad ceemony by a company epesentative is expected in ode to eceive the awad. Exceptions to this will be consideed based upon individual company equests. Rights Reseved All enties and submitted mateials will be etained by the Gavue Association of the Ameicas. Each enty fom contains a elease statement giving GAAmeicas the ight to pomote and display the enty as an example of gavue technology. It is the esponsibility of all entants to secue the necessay pemission fom all supplies and clients befoe submitting an enty. Send completed enties to: GOLDEN CYLINDER AWARDS COMPETITION c/o Pamela Schenk 1673 Winton Road Noth Rocheste, NY 14609 If you have any questions concening the Golden Cylinde Awads competition, please contact Pamela Schenk at GAAmeicas: Tel: 201-523-6042 Fax: 201-523-6048 E-mail pwschenk@gaa.og 1
FOR GAAmeicas USE ONLY. JUDGES WILL NOT SEE THIS INFORMATION Enty Fom fo the Gavue Association of the Ameicas 2019 Golden Cylinde Awads Name of Enty: ID NO. (GAAmeicas to Assign ID No.) Complete a sepaate fom fo each enty. Foms must be complete and legible, and must include the name and telephone numbe of the peson submitting the enty. If you need additional foms, you may photocopy this one, o you can contact GAAmeicas. Upon eceipt of you enty, GAAmeicas will assign an ID numbe. The deadline fo enties is Apil 26, 2019. Please emembe to sign the elease statement. ALL INCOMPLETE FORMS/ENTRIES WILL BE REJECTED AND DETERMINED INELIGBLE UNLESS THE DEFICIENCIES ARE CORRECTED PRIOR TO JUDGING. Awad Categoies (Please Choose One Categoy Pe Enty) A. PACKAGING AND LABEL Packaging and labels exhibiting the best gavue pinting on vaious substates. A1 Pape A2 Film-Film Lamination A3 Film-Boad Lamination A4 Film-Suface/Revese Pinted A5 Film-Shink A6 Film-Pessue Sensitive A7Unsuppoted Foil A8Papeboad/Top Coated A9 Cougated B. PRODUCT Gavue-quality execution of gaphics on vaious substates. B1 Decoative Coveings B2 Floocoveings B3 Postage Stamps & Secuity Pinting B4 Giftwap B5 Novelty Poducts B6 Functional B7 Vinyl Substates B8 Decoative Laminates C. PUBLICATION Publication exhibiting the best gavue pinting on vaious substates. C1 Newspint Supecalendeed C2 Retail C3 Catalog C4 Magazine Lightweight Coated (Unde 40#) C5 Retail C6 Catalog C7 Magazine Coated (Ove 40#) C8 Retail C9 Catalog C10 Magazine D. *TECHNICAL INNOVATION Innovation should impove custome satisfaction, poductivity and/o delivey. D1 Image Pepaation (Pio to Engaving) D2 Image Caie D3 Inks & Substates D4 Pess D5 Post Pess D6 Packaging D7 Poduct D8 Label * The technical innovation should be company-wide and help meet the needs of the custome, penetate new makets, and/o gow the gavue maket and pocess. Note: 3d paty testimonies must be povided on poduct launch/sales. To assist the judges in the pocess, please include the following items fo each enty, if applicable: The item itself (please send two in case one is damaged duing judging) The un sheet The item applied to finished poduct, if applicable. Fo example, if judging a label, please send the label attached to the bottle o caton, etc. (You may use fille in place of the actual poduct to educe weight and shipping costs) If a potion of the item has been pinted w/a diffeent pocess, please use masking tape to indicate the potion of the item not to be judged. Fo example, on a publication, if the cove is not pinted gavue, please tape this potion of the enty, and any additional pages. This will save time and effot and help the judging pocess function smoothly. Entant Contact Infomation Company Name: Addess: City, State, Zip: Name of Contact Peson: Tel: Email Addess: Fax: 2
FOR GAAmeicas USE ONLY. JUDGES WILL NOT SEE THIS INFORMATION Name of Enty: ID NO. (GAAmeicas to Assign ID No.) Type of Enty: Type of Company: Individual Mutual Membe Company Non-membe Company Enty Fees: Membes One to fou enties...$155 each Five o moe enties...$135 each Non-Membes $305 each $265 each Mutual Enties: The appopiate enty fee fo each company taking pat in the mutual enty must accompany mutual enties Method of Payment: Check enclosed (payable to Gavue Association of the Ameicas) MasteCad Visa Ameican Expess Account Numbe: Expiation Date: Name on Cad: Sec Code: Contact Infomation fo Cadholde: Name of Contact: Company Name: Addess: City, State, Zip: Email Addess: 3
FOR GAAmeicas USE ONLY. JUDGES WILL NOT SEE THIS INFORMATION Name of Enty & Categoy: ID NO. Company Name: Addess: City, State, Zip: Name of Contact Peson: Email Addess: Tel: Fax: Complete this section fo mutual enties only: Company Name: Addess: City, State, Zip: Name of Contact Peson: Email Addess: Tel: Fax: Complete this section fo all enties, if applicable: Designe Name Addess: City: State: Zip: Name of Contact Peson Sepaato Name Addess: City: State: Zip: Name of Contact Peson Engave Name Addess: City: State: Zip: Name of Contact Peson Pinte Name Addess: City: State: Zip: Name of Contact Peson Pess Manufactue Addess: City: State: Zip: Name of Contact Peson No. of pess units No. of colos/coatings Substate Manufactue Addess: City: State: Zip: Name of Contact Peson Poduct Name Ink Manufactue Addess: City: State: Zip: Name of Contact Peson Poduct Name 4
FOR JUDGES USE ONLY THIS INFORMATION IS VITAL COULD BE THE DETERMINING FACTOR FOR JUDGES 2019 Golden Cylinde Awads Enty Fom - All Categoies Name of Enty: Categoy: ID NO. (GAAmeicas to assign ID NO.): Desciption Of Enty The judge s guidelines ae outlined on the next page. Witten documentation is a vey impotant element of the competition. It could be the diffeence in what enty is detemined The Best of Show. Release Statement: I heeby give the Gavue Association of the Ameicas the ight to pomote, publicize and display this enty as an example of gavue technology. I acknowledge that the necessay pemission has been obtained fom all supplies and clients named within this enty fom pio to submitting the enty to the Gavue Association of the Ameicas fo the 2019 Golden Cylinde Awads Competition. Don t take the isk of you enty becoming ineligible. This signatue MUST be on the file pio to judging. Authoized Signatue of Entant 5
2019 Golden Cylinde Awads Enty Fom Guidelines We head you! We have etuned to the single paagaph vesion of the desciption of enty fom. Below ae the citeia which should be included. Fo Categoies A, B and C: Desciption of Enty Please include the infomation below if possible when descibing you enty. o Job Difficulty: Ae thee multiple colos used? Quality of ink coveage colo intensity and lay? Quality of line and tone? Sceen lines pe inch? Any ovepints and vanish? Was thee a difficult egistation patten? Ae thee complex foil stamps o typically difficult effects used? o Substate Choice: Was the substate choice appopiate and/o effective fo the piece? O did they do an exceptional job with substate that is difficult to use? o Pepess: To what degee did the pepess wok contibute to the quality of the enty? o Specialized Pinting: Did the job equie custom inks & coatings, backpint, etc.? o Image Quality: To what degee does the enty meet the pupose fo which it is intended? Does the enty demonstate a ceative use of the gavue pocess and to what degee is the gavue pocess essential to the quality of the enty? Have quality tagets been met: clean wipe, egistation, dot and solid quality, finishing/bindey quality? o Visual Impact: Is you oveall impession of the piece favoable? Is it paticulaly appealing in tems of image quality and visual impact? o Technical Innovation: How does the enty Stetch the Envelope of Gavue Technology. Is new o modified technology incopoated in the enty, o the new application of an existing technology? Fo Categoies D: Desciption of Enty Please include the infomation below if possible when descibing you enty. o What is you innovation and how does it wok? o How does this impove o impact gavue? 6
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