Contest Total White Contest - Innovation Area

Description / Buyer

OKI Systems Italia is the OKI Data Corporation Italian subsidiary, the society in which OKI Electric Industry has gone into all the activities of designing, developing, manufacturing and marketingof effective and efficient printing solutions. OKI Systems Italia is specialized in professional printing, and offers a full range of products, based on Led Digital Technology, with high performance and quality, made specifically to meet the demands of business, of any size and professional segment.
For further information www.oki.it

PURPOSE

Have you got a project that involves the release of white colour or clear gloss, you would like to print without resorting to expensive traditional silk-screen or lithographic printing equipment? This is the perfect contest: Creativity is everywhere!

The goal of the Total White Contest is to collect original projects in order to suggest new ways of using and fields of application of the innovative five colour printer OKI ES9541, the only one in its category that prints white colour and glossy transparent on coloured/transparent media.

ES9541, is the revolutionary new digital LED Five Colour A3 printer, that enables you to not only print the full range of process colours using CMYK, but also offers an additional fifth, spot colour, in white or clear gloss, providing new possibilities for printing. In addition, ES9541 marks a decisive step forward in the colour printing market, providing greater flexibility in the management of printing media including transparent media, magnetic media, banners and boards of high grammage (Media sizes from A6 to SRA3, banner lengths of up to 1.3m; ES9541 can handle media of up to 360gsm - single sided or 320gsm - duplex).
The printing of white color can be performed either as the last step (after CMYK), both as the first.

Proposals submitted must belong to one of the following categories:
- Packaging: for example, boxes, product packaging, labels, paper industry projects…
- Design: fashion design projects, jewel design, interior design, industrial design…
- Graphics: illustrations, artworks, advertising…
- Innovation/innovative ideas: what not belongs to the previous categories and characterize the potential for the application of the ES9541 and with a strong spirit of innovation! It will be possible present not only graphics proposals but also ideas for its application usage.

The submitted projects have not to be necessarily unpublished. It is possible to join the contest also proposing works designed previously, which can be used, adapted and reinterpreted in line with the Total White Contest’s goals.
The white and glossy/shiny elements should characterize the entire creative proposal, and also be the focal part, along with the type of media used.
Each creative member can submit one or more proposals in four categories: packaging, design, graphics and innovation.

TARGET

Thanks to digital LED print technology, ES9541 offers high definition colour printing, with high quality, la stampa a colori ad alta definizione, con la massima qualità, on a wider range of media, and features print speeds of up to 50 pages per minute. The ES9541 is primarily targeted at the specialist graphic arts market offering print shops the ability to produce short-run digital print tasks at a very high quality, combining unique features and low running costs, in a single device.

Other

RESOURCES: For further information we invite you visiting OKI System Italia website: www.oki.it
ATTACHED: ES9541 Brochure & Specification Sheet
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
The proposals must be load into the reserved area on the website of the CREATHEAD community, after registration, in JPEG format, in the relevant category:
- packaging
- design
- graphics
- innovation/creative ideas ( for this category is allowed the WORD format)
Each creative can upload one or more proposals for each category.
Everything must preferably be accompanied by a presentation describing the idea and its development of printing (formats, media, technical characteristics), as well as the reflections that were stimulus and cause.
It is possible to participate either with the \"nomination\" made directly from the Creathead’s showcases, or individually by uploading the proposal without been \"nominated.\"

WORKS DEADLINE:
The contest will end on October 30th 2014. All work must be loaded in the reserved area no later than that date. The company reserves the right to extend the deadline.

AWARD CRITERIA:
OKI and Creathead will choose for each category the proposals considered most suitable to the goal, which will enter to the second step and will be required the print files in high resolution.
During this step the selected proposals will be publish in a specific area where will take place the vote by the community members and then used by OKI as printing sample, to spread during the events, exhibitions, showcases and visible on OKI web channels, always mentioning the name of the creator and acknowledging the authorship of the work.
OKI management will select one proposal for each category that will will win the reward.
The community will decide through an online voting (LIKE) the proposal more popular among those admitted to the second step (regardless of category).




REWARDS:

Selected proposal for packaging category: € 2.000 VAT not included
Selected proposal for design category: € 2.000 VAT not included
Selected proposal for graphic category: € 2.000 VAT not included
Selected proposal for innovation/innovative ideas: € 2.000 VAT not included
Selected proposal by the community through online vote: € 2.000 VAT not included
Total award: € 10.000 VAT not included
If two or more proposals selected for different categories, belong to the same creative participant, it will be recognized the sum of the different fees.

PAYMENT:
The sum will be paid by bank transfer on the bank of support announced by the winner himself. Payment will be made 60 days after the delivery of the final executives.

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT:
Those wishing to participate are bound to confidentiality of the contents of this document and not tell others.

COPYRIGHT AND USAGE:
Recall that the UPLOAD action came to possess ALL rights to the loaded material (audio, video and images) and not to VIOLATE THE COPYRIGHT IN ANY WAY or ANY RIGHTS OF OTHERS.

PRIVACY POLICY:
Under the Italian privacy regulations (DL 196/03) informs you that the following data will be processed by Creathead to start the contest of ideas on the community. CREATHEAD reserves the right to publish and publicize all the works presented where appropriate and considered without having to give prior notice to the author or others.



GENERAL PROVISION:
1. Works submitted will remain property of the proponents who are committed to make available the printing files of the proposals, in order to be exhibit and publish freely by Creathead and OKI, always recognizing the authorship of the work, for initiatives to show ES9541 demo of printing, not only on the web, by all the branches of the OKI EMEA region.
2. To make necessary adjustments, the participants of the contest will have to show their willingness to meet any requests from the client.

JURISDICTION:
For any dispute arising between the contractor and the contractor relating to their contractual obligations, will be competent Court of Milan.

ON STAGE

In questa sezione carica le tue proposte creative per la categoria: Innovazione/idee innovative (proposte caratterizzanti per l’applicazione delle potenzialità della ES9541 e con un forte spirito innovatore! Sarà possibile non solo presentare proposte grafiche ma anche idee di utilizzo e applicazione)