Ben Franklin Press continues to receive its share of regional, national and international awards for its exemplary work in the printing world. In 1997, proprietors Dennis Franklin Patterson and Teri Ann Faychild traveled to Chicago to receive the BENNY, the highly coveted and most prestigious international printing award for the printing of the Fife Vineyards wine label, designed by CF/Napa in Napa, California. In the world of print, this award, coincidentally a small statuette of
Benjamin Franklin, is regarded as the equivalent of the
Academy Awards Oscar.

In 1998 and 1999, Ben Franklin Press also received industry recognition with several gold and silver awards for outstanding achievement for printed, foiled, embossed and die cut projects, and the list keeps growing. Some recent awards from the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen are:

Earlier this year, Ben Franklin Press once again captured the gold for a pressure-sensitive wine label produced for Napa Dan's Oops Cuvee.

This stunning, pressure sensitive label represents the Napa Valley at its glorious best. Designed by the industry-leading Napa design firm of CF/Napa, production involved a total of 8 colors, including four-color process, 2 Pantone inks and special coatings. The intricate design also required skillful embossing on the Kluge. As a finishing touch the label was die-cut to flatter the overall design.

Acacia Winery Brandy Package -
SILVER MEDAL 2001
Ben Franklin Press also won a silver award for the Chalone Wine Group's Acacia Winery Brandy Package. This printing project, producing a Hang Tag and die-cut stamp for the bottle, required several steps. After production was complete a grommet was applied so that the Hang Tag could be attached to the beautiful brandy bottle with a distinctive leather tie. The Hang Tag itself has no litho, it does have 3 foils, embossing and protective coating. While the folks on the Acacia's bottling line view the label assembley as a challenge, everyone agreed that the unique finished product was worth the extra effort.

Van Asperen Wines Presentation Folder -
SILVER MEDAL 2001
Another award presented to Ben Franklin Press was for this show-stopping Presentation Folder produced using solid ink coverage and multilevel embossing with gold foil.