PRINTING United Alliance, the most comprehensive member-based printing and graphic arts association in North America, announces that the 2025 Pinnacle Product Awards program is now open for entries through April 11, 2025. The Pinnacle Product Awards recognize products that improve or advance the printing industry with exceptional contributions in quality, capability, and productivity. Information about the program, open exclusively to Alliance Supplier members, can be found at https://pinnacleawards.printing.org/.
2025 Pinnacle Awards Categories
The Pinnacle Awards program is a competition created for manufacturers with three main categories: Output devices; Non-Output devices; and Technology, defined as follows:
Pinnacle Product Awards – Output
The Pinnacle Product Award – Output category recognizes output printing products with the tightest delta E to the target. These use the latest Maxwell color management software and X-Rite or Barbieri measuring devices.
Pinnacle Product Awards – Non-output
The Pinnacle Product Award – Non-output category recognizes products that improve or advance the printing industry with exceptional contributions to quality, capability, and productivity.
Pinnacle Product Awards – Technology
The Pinnacle Product Award – Technology category honors the development of technologies predicted to significantly impact commercial printing, digital textiles, packaging, screen printing, wide format, and related industries.
Pinnacle Awards Program Earns Top Marks with Winners
In 2024, the Pinnacle Awards program recognized 76 noteworthy, winning technology products. Winning the Pinnacle Award is a powerful asset for any business, providing critical recognition and validation, and demonstrating one’s outstanding accomplishments to peers and customers alike.
“Winning a Pinnacle Award is a game-changer—it puts your innovation in the spotlight and gets your work in front of the entire industry,” says Linday Ferrari, PRINTING United Alliance Program Administrator. “With spotlight media coverage, a dedicated awards gallery, recognition at PRINTING United Expo, and so much more; it’s an incredible opportunity to gain visibility and credibility that helps your business stand out.”
This 2024 awards winner comments on the value of the Pinnacle Award and how it helped strengthen their business:
“Internally, we knew the Fedrigoni 12-Year Cast Ri-Jet C50 Film and Adhesive Technology was a next generation development and game-changer for the 3D vehicle wrap industry, making it easier, faster, and longer-lasting than any product currently available,” says Lawrence Delesio, Business Development Manager, DAF Products. “At DAF Products and Fedrigoni Self Adhesives, the Pinnacle Award was a validation [of] our product design and manufacturing by independent industry experts when compared to the current competitive products in the market. This award added to the customer interest to test a revolutionary cast film. Once they tried it there was no looking back.”
How to Enter
Pinnacle Award product submissions can be made online at https://pinnacleawards.printing.org/. Winners will be acknowledged across various Alliance channels including a feature in the coveted PRINTING United Journal, across Alliance media brand platforms, and during PRINTING United Expo, taking place this year from October 22-24 in Orlando, Florida.
