• Lindy Hughson (centre) presents the Print21 Printer of the Year Award to the MCC Australia team at the National Print Awards.
    Lindy Hughson (centre) presents the Print21 Printer of the Year Award to the MCC Australia team at the National Print Awards.
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Label print business Multi-Color Corporation Australia took out the Print21 Printer of the Year title at the industry’s refreshed National Print Awards.

MCC also won Gold in the Labels category for its Libation Front and Back Set. MCC was responsible for production, pre-press and print for the 10,000 labels. IVE Print took out Gold in the Packaging category for its Starward Panettone Christmas Box, of which it produced 12,5000 with production, prepress and print all in-house.

MCC was awarded the country’s most prestigious print award in the 40th iteration of the National Print Awards, coming out in front of commercial printers, sign and display printers, merchandising printers, and other label printers. In alphabetical order, the finalists for the Print21 Printer of the Year were: Bambra Press, IVE Group, MCC, Press Print Solutions and Rawson Print & Packaging.

Lindy Hughson, publisher of PKN Packaging News and of Print21, presented the Printer of the Year Award to MCC on stage during a glittering awards presentation in Sydney.

She said, “Print21, and its publisher Yaffa Media, were honoured to be able to present the Print21 Printer of the Year Award, which highlighted overall excellence in print. Congratulations to MCC on winning the award."

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