Printing Contests — Judging is Art and Science

In fact, overall consistency helps establish an entry from the rest of the field. “It doesn’t represent a printer well if they have a great printing job but the binding is lousy, or the glue is sloppy, or the folds are in the wrong place,” Fogel says. “Those are the kinds of things that trip people up. We want to see a consistent level of detail, where every member of that print production team is holding up their end of the bargain.”