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World Color Tops North American Printers in Annual Gold Ink Printing Competition

Thursday 17. September 2009 - World Color Press Inc. (TSX:WC)(TSX:WC.U)("World Color") won 34 Gold Ink Awards in the annual printing competition sponsored by Publishing Executive, Printing Impressions and Book Business magazines.

That total topped all other North American printers and continued an award-winning company tradition in this and related competitions. Earlier in July, the company won 15 awards in the 2009 Graphic Awards competition sponsored by the Print Industry Association of the South (PIAS).

The Gold Ink Awards included one Gold – the highest honor – to World Color St. Cloud for its printing of Interiors and Sources in the Trade Magazine category. Ten different World Color facilities won awards in more than 10 different categories, including annual reports, books, brochures, magazines and directories. More than 1,000 entries from around the world were submitted into this year’s competition. Entries were judged on the basis of print quality, technical difficulty and overall visual effect. Winners were recognized at the annual Gold Ink Awards and Hall of Fame banquet Sept. 14 in Chicago.

“Our continued success in the Gold Ink and other printing competitions speaks to the dedication of our employees, their superb craft skills and the overall quality of our operations,” said Mark Angelson, Chairman and CEO. “More importantly, it recognizes the quality of our customers, who set the creative and production standards to which we all aspire.”

The Gold Ink Awards will be showcased in the September issue of Publishing Executive magazine.