New Zealand’s Pride In Print awards were presented at a gala event in Christchurch last Friday.

The Otago Daily Times won the newspapers category for its February 17 edition, with Blue Star’s Auckland Print & Packaging winning the magazines category for Sage Journal.

Among the process awards, Stuff’s The Post Your Weekend supplement won coldset offset, with the heatset process award going to Webstar Auckland for the Franklin Times (both above). Staff at the Petone printing plant which produces The Post and its supplements were told in March that the site would close in 2027, with production moving to Christchurch.

The Pride in Print Supreme Award went to Brebner Print for its New Zealand Birds series, which also won the business print category.

PrintNZ awards presented during the evening included Apprentice of the Year to Travers Dobson (Leading Label), and Trainer of the Year, jointly to Rhys Fauvel (Blue Star Wellington) and Matthew Moore (Opal Fibre Packaging Christchurch).

More information and photographs from the night are awaited.