Firms from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut are among the winners of the 2012 Premier Print Awards, the world’s most prestigious international print competition.

Printing Industries of America (PIA) says that more than 2,800 entries were submitted for judging in this year’s competition. Tristate winners are listed below. The Premier Print Awards web site presents a list of the 109 Best of Category award winners (“Benny” recipients) as well as listings of companies that received Awards of Recognition and Certificates of Merit.

All Benny-winning pieces will be featured in a full-color publication mailed by PIA to 10,000 print buyers. They also will be recognized at the Premier Print Awards Gala during Graph Expo 2012 in Chicago on October 7. The Best in Show winner will be announced during the awards gala, which also features the InterTech™ Technology Awards and the web2awards.

Our congratulations to the tristate recipients.

Award of Recognition

Earth Color (Parsippany, NJ): Service Catalogs (4 or more colors, printers with more than 250 employees); Programs (4 or more colors)

Compu-Mail LLC (Niagara Falls, NY): Calendars; Direct Mail Campaigns, Business-to-Business

xweet LLC (Long Island City, NY): Media Kits

Best of Category

CRW Graphics (Pennsauken, NJ): Environmentally Sound

Brooks Litho & Digital Group (Deer Park, NY): Booklets (4 or more colors, printers with 20 employees or less)

Compu-Mail LLC (Niagara Falls, NY): Campaign

Conformer Products (Great Neck, NY): Envelopes

xweet LLC (Long Island City, NY): Media Kits

Certificate of Merit

Fusion Cross-Media (Manchester, CT): Customized/Personalize/Variable-Data Digital Printing

All-State Legal (Cranford, NJ): Cards

Earth Color (Parsippany, NJ): Booklets (4 or more colors, printers with more than 250 employees); Product/Service Catalogs (Cover – sheetfed; Interior – web); Product Catalogs (4 or more colors, printers with more than 250 employees); Direct Mail Campaigns, Consumer

Hatteras (Tinton Falls, NJ): Presentation Folders/Portfolios (4 or more colors); Business and Annual Reports (4 or more colors throughout, printers with 101 – 250 employees); Promotional Campaigns, Business-to-Business

Perfect Printing (Moorestown, NJ): Print/Graphic Arts Self-Promotion (Printers with 21 – 50 employees)

Riegel Printing (Ewing, NJ): Booklets (4 or more colors, printers with 51 – 100 employees) (twice); Diaries and Desk Calendars; Other Special Finishing Techniques

American Packaging Corporation (Rochester, NY): Flexographic Printing (twice)

Diamond Packaging (Rochester, NY): Calendars; Specialty Inks or Coatings, Fragrances, or “Invisible” Printing Inks; Environmentally Sound; Cartons and Containers; Print/Graphic Arts Self-Promotion (Printers with 101 – 250 employees)

Hammer Packaging (Rochester, NY): Labels and Wraps—Cut and stack, sheetfed; Labels and Wraps—Rolled products/pressure-sensitive

Island Pro Digital (Hauppauge, NY): Print/Graphic Arts Self-Promotion (Printers with 20 employees or less)

Overnight Labels (Deer Park, NY): Flexographic Printing

xweet LLC (Long Island City, NY): Media Kits