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The equivalent of nearly 5 million dots per inch received PIA's first-ever "They Said It Couldn't Be Done" award.
The poster was one of three finalists. The competition received over 5,600 entries from the U.S. and 15 other countries of which only 100 were chosen for this category.
After the announcement, President Don Faust, his mother, RoseMary, who is chairman of the board, and his brother Tom, who is vice president of sales, were anxious to return to California to celebrate with business and family members, Brian and Greg and the rest of the staff.
"Now they know that all their effort, experimentation, and long hours were worth it," says Don. "This was an achievement we hoped would impress our peers. And we were glad that PIA had judges who were technical experts and understood what we, our pre-press and pressroom staff had accomplished."
The judges remarks were, "Faust has recreated the wheel. This piece has exceeded the limitations of the traditional printing process by a factor of ten. Is this the future of printing? Absolutely amazing!"
Faust spent many hours developing a program to make their extremely high resolution technology capable of imaging direct to plate. After successfully imaging the plates the next test was, could they print it.
Faust bought a new printing press specifically for its automation and ability to print high-resolution images. The original criteria Faust established in its print test was the ability to reproduce 600- and 900-line-screen forms, the 1,110.80 line screen was to put this six-color press through its paces, "says Director of Western Sales Dan Quenzer.---CONTINUED ON PAGE 2