OUR 2024 PARTNERS
Early bird discount !
All pieces at $100 until december 1, 2023.
ENTER THE GUTENBERG CONTEST!
Deadline for entries : January 31, 2024
BACK THIS YEAR : THE MENTION HORS QUÉBEC
Are you a Canadian printer (outside Quebec)?
Here's your chance to win a Mention Gutenberg!
The Mention Gutenberg Hors Québec will be awarded to the piece printed in
Canada but outside Quebec that receives the highest score in all categories
combined.
- Enter your piece in one of the 14 categories and add the Mention Hors Québec option.
- Fill out the registration form
- Send it to us by email at info@galagutenberg.ca
- Send 2 copies of your piece with the mention: Gutenberg 2024.
No matter your region, take advantage of this opportunity and celebrate print with us!
Here are the 14 categories of the Gutenberg 2024 Competition:
- Gutenberg 100% Digital
- Gutenberg Display
- Gutenberg Books Editing
- Gutenberg Magazines Editing
- Gutenberg Ennoblement, Finishing and Complementary Processes
- Gutenberg Labels
- Gutenberg Packaging
- Gutenberg Flexible Packaging
- Gutenberg Non-Conventional Material
- Gutenberg Marketing (Self-Promotion)
- Gutenberg Marketing (Customer)
- Gutenberg L'Audacieux
- Gutenberg Binding
- GutenVERT
Category descriptions
100% DIGITAL
Your project is printed only in digital? Regardless of the type of equipment (toner, inkjet, varnish, etc.) and the quantity printed, this category is for you!
Example: All that can be printed digitally!
DISPLAY
Poster, banner, POP (point-of-purchase advertising), display stand, etc.
EDITION (books, magazines)
Souvenir program (on sale), comic book, book, magazine, etc.
LABELS
Everything that is similar to a label, whether or not it is self-adhesive (except stamps).
PACKAGING
Everything that can hold a product.
FLEXIBLE PACKAGING
Any product printed on flexible or extensible film (plastic containers, caps, resealable plastic sleeves, bags, thermoretractable packaging, etc.)
L'AUDACIEUX
“Which is highly inventive, encourages to perform difficult actions, to take risks to succeed a project considered impossible.”
You have dared to go further, and have achieved a revolutionary print by its raw materials, its manufacturing process, its shape or its use? So, submit your piece in this category.
MARKETING (customer)
Souvenir program (free), brochure, vehicle wrapping, promotional product, avertising, mailings, textile clothing and accessories, etc.
MARKETING (self-promotion)
Corporate brochure, display sleeve, calendar, vehicle wrapping, promotional product, etc.
NON-CONVENTIONAL MATERIAL
Do you print on fabric, wood, glass, ceramic, leather or any other unconventional media? This category is for you!
Examples: Curtains, floors, windows, cups, sweaters, etc.
ENNOBLISSEMENT, FINITION ET PROCÉDÉS COMPLÉMENTAIRES
Any project that has used one or more complementary techniques:
Gilding, embossing or debossing, hot or cold stamping, embossing, decorative cutting and punching, lamination, special varnishes, selective varnishes, 3D varnishes, digital foil, etc.
BINDING
From box binding to thermobinding, menus, sample books, folding, sewing, gluing, case binding, perfect binding, cloth binding, Swiss binding, etc. Here is your category!
MENTION HORS QUÉBEC
If you’re a Canadian printer (outside Quebec), here’s your chance to win a Mention Gutenberg!
The Mention Gutenberg Hors Québec will be awarded to the piece printed in
Canada but outside Quebec that receives the highest score in all categories
combined.
category
If your project includes several of the GutenVERT criteria (see bellow), you have a chance to win a GutenVERT Award.
Evaluation criteria
All pieces will be judged according to the following criteria:
Characteristics of the project : 75%
- Quality of the product compared to others
- Description of the project (short explicative text)
- Complexity and shape of the project
- Print register
- Colour uniformity
- Printing process(es) and its constraints
- Substrate constraint
- Finishing (complexity, register, quality of finish)
- Types of ink and/or toners (Pantone, metallic, reactive inks, etc.
General quality : 15%
- Creation or design
- Photo quality
- Choice of print substrate
- Emphasizing the ennoblement processes
Audacity : 10%
- Unusual manufacturing process
- Product use
- Audacity and creativity
- Novelty
To all the pieces registered in the GutenVERT category , the following criteria will be added:
- Source of material (paper, cardboard, etc.) : Quebec, Canada, United States, Europe, Asia
- Recyclable products: Reusable or recyclable , Compostable or biodegradable
- Recycled content (% recycled): 0% recycled, 30% recycled, 100% recycled
- Additional accreditations: (e.g. chlorine-free, biogas, FSC, carbon-neutral...)
- Ecological inks/varnishes
There are no more barriers to your participation!