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2025 Xerox® Best of the Best Awards for Print

Big ideas. Bold execution.

Are you ready to show your most jaw-dropping Beyond CMYK applications?

Enter for a chance to win a 2025 Xerox® Best of the Best Award for Print.

You’ve done the work to transform creative inspiration into stunningly gorgeous, digitally embellished print. Now, it’s time to earn some well-deserved bragging rights. Winners will be showcased on our website and social channels as leading examples of print innovators, broadening their visibility to potential new customers. The 2025 Best of the Best Awards for Print are open to any Xerox client producing work on Xerox® Beyond CMYK Technologies using at least one Specialty Dry Ink.

You can submit multiple entries across the categories below:

1. Stationery Award: Stationery, cards, invitations, menus and business cards 2. Publishing Award: Books, booklets and catalogs 3. Direct Mail Award: Direct mail and postcards 4. Packaging Award: Folding cartons and labels 5. Signage Award: Posters, banners, clings and tent cards 6. Functional Goods Award: Bookmarks, luggage tags, coasters, stickers and magnets 7. Marketing Collaterals Award: Brochures and promotional material, including self-promotion

The entry judged to be the biggest, boldest example of Beyond CMYK print execution will be named Best of Show. Entries are judged on the following criteria:

  • Image Quality

  • Business Results

  • Innovation and Creativity using Specialty Dry Inks

  • Use of Xerox Technologies, Workflow, Finishing and Beyond CMYK Resources

Winners will be announced at PRINTING United Expo in October 2025.

Online entries must be submitted by September 19, 2025.

5 corresponding non-returnable print samples must be received in Webster, New York, by 11:59 p.m. EST on September 26, 2025.

Please allow sufficient time for your submission to be received. Late submissions cannot be accepted.

2025 Xerox® Best of the Best Awards for Print

Send us your best today: Beyond CMYK print with show-stopping impact + show-worthy execution.


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