Member News: Web Offset Association 2009 presents Award for Excellence to Star Press (Wainwright)
The Web Offset Association of the Printing Industries of America at their annual conference in May in Las Vegas honored Star Press of Wainwright with a first place award of excellence for web offset printing using UV inks on newsprint for North America.
Star Press president Roger Holmes accepted the award and was one of the speakers at the conference on the topic of using ultra violet light to cure inks in the printing of newspapers.
Star Press is a leader in North American using the UV technology in newspapers which brings higher quality color reproduction to its 43 weekly newspapers clients in Western Canada and the NWT. Star Press prints over 1,000,000 community newspapers each month. The winning entry was printed for a client newspaper, The Neighborhood Express in Saskatoon, late last year.
Pleased by the award Holmes credits the growth of Star Press to his staff and using the UV technology.