The Jürgen Schönhut Memorial CIP4 International Print Production Innovation (CIPPI) Awards were established in order to recognize leading printer, publisher, or prepress services that have demonstrated uncommon leadership in their pursuit of process automation technology. The CIPPI award is named after the late Jürgen Schönhut of the Fraunhofer Institute in Darmstadt Germany. Mr. Schönhut was a founding member of CIP4 whose contribution was instrumental in creating both CIP4 and its predecessor, the CIP3 Consortium (More information on Jürgen Schönhut). Each year CIP4 awards one printer, publisher or prepress for their accomplishments in each of the following categories:

• Most innovative use of process automation technology in an implementation.
• Best cost/benefit realization as a result of process automation implementation.
• Biggest improvement in efficiency and customer responsiveness as a result of process automation.

Nominations may be submitted by the printer, publisher or a prepress service, or by one of their supporting vendors on their behalf. The award is given to the printer, publisher, or prepress service representative identified in the application and a certificate acknowledging the award is given to each vendor identified in detail in the award application. Applications for the awards are due to CIP4 not later than 22 June, 2007. Visit the sitet for details.