Indigo Ink

It's Restaurant Week in our area (via Visit Howard County, Maryland) which might be the perfect time to appreciate the printed menu (designed to keep you off your phone and in the moment).

Print Keeps it Classy.

A Closer Look at Our Award-Winning Work
Several of our specialty print projects have recently been recognized for their design, craftsmanship, and technical complexity... and we wanted to show them off! We're honored to be recognized, incredibly proud of our dedicated team, and honestly, just really inspired by these utterly cool pieces.

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Print & Graphic Communications Association Neographic Awards
We've won the Power of Print 5th Runner-up Award (that’s the overall best in show category) for “Corvus Corax” (an art print with specialty effects that was in collaboration with Scodix Digital Print Enhancement).
Client/Artist: Erica Williams
HookieDuke | ericawilliamsillustration.com

Additionally, we won three “Franklin” Awards:
• “Print Keeps it Classy” Printers Self Promotion Category
• “Print Keeps it Classy” Campaigns Category
• “Corvus Corax” Printing Finishing and Embellishments Category

The “Print Keeps it Classy” campaign featured spot fluorescent pink, metallic gold ink, traditional foil, transparent stocks, and a pinch of attitude.

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Foil & Specialty Effects Association Gold Leaf Awards
The Foil & Specialty Effects Association recognized two of our digital foil pieces for their design, ex*****on, and level of difficulty. Receiving entries from around the world, the The Gold Leaf Awards celebrate “the quality, added value, shelf presence, security and brand recognition that these finishing processes lend to the printed sheet.” Having won Gold Leaf Awards over the past three years, we're honored to be recognized once again.

GOLD AWARD
“Corvus Corax”
Category: Toner Adhesive Foil
Client/Artist: Erica Williams
HookieDuke | ericawilliamsillustration.com
In collaboration with Scodix

SILVER AWARD & BRONZE AWARD
“Monarchy”
Categories: Silver in Toner Adhesive Foil, Bronze in Cast and Cure
Client/Artist: Jon Ching
Jon Ching Art | www.jonching.art
In collaboration with Scodix

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Congratulations to all of the other winners and artists who were recognized this year! We're looking forward to producing more inspiring specialty print pieces in the year ahead.

Print and Graphic Communications Association 2026 Neographics Award Winners...

Text messages. QR Codes. PDFs. Social Media. Chat GPT. Look, we're not luddites, but we kinda think some types of communication seem to have veered towards the disposable, cheap, fast, and regrettably immemorable.

While digital communication has its place, classic ways of communicating are still incredibly effective when it comes to saying what you mean, creating a vibe, and getting attention in a way that just lands differently. We'd like to take a moment to give a huge shout-out of thanks to all of the stationery and greeting card makers out there who help keep printed and handwritten personalized greetings alive and well in the world. Whether it's the handwritten thank you note, the foiled invite, the bespoke event signage, the triplex business card, the die cut brochure, or the keepsake Mother's Day Greeting Card on luxe paper stock... Print Keeps It Classy.

Happy Mother's Day. (She deserves so much more than just emojis🌸)

We always like to have a little fun on

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

We want to celebrate this important occasion by highlighting a few recent developments in the ongoing journey towards sustainable printing that we (you and Indigo Ink) are on together.

This year marks our tenth anniversary partnering with PrintReleaf— every project you print with us on paper automatically results in new trees (17,406 so far!). Exciting new forest projects are underway across the world—including here in the US with sites in California, Florida, Oregon and Michigan.

——An Exciting New Development——
In addition to new forest projects that replenish the source of paper, we've also started to offset the carbon footprint created by paper manufacturing. PrintReleaf has calculated the amount of CO2 emissions created in the paper making process, specifically factoring in the amount of paper Indigo Ink uses to print your project. We then offset the total emissions by funding renewable energy projects around the world. This initiative is in addition to any renewable energy usage and/or offsets the paper mills already have in place.

Furthermore, we continue to use FSC-certified papers for house stocks and offer 100% Post Consumable Waste Recycled options. Request a current swatchbook or ask for a recommendation to make sure you're spec'ing the most environmentally friendly paper for your next project.

Interested to see how we're progressing together? Take a look at how many trees you've planted, where they're located, and our ongoing collaborative stats as they regularly get updated.
https://printreleaf.com/IndigoInkDigitalPrinting

And again, Happy Earth Day. Every step towards sustainability is progress. We're in this together.

This one was very inspiring to work on. This Beautiful invitation features traditional blind embossing and gold foil. Cover on Antique Grey and Invitation on Classic Crest Solar White.