An outstanding Italian diary produced by Grafiche  dell’Artiere of Bologna, Italy, in special black uncoated woodfree paper, with non cmyk inks and various embossings was awarded the top prize of the 2006 CmykAwards contest. Produced for Cerdomus Ceramiche, a top quality Italian company specializing inhousehold ceramic products, t diary was also awarded the gold prize of the Cmyk Awards forcommercial jobs produced in uncoated woodfree papers, one of the fiveCmyk Awards categories.

In the other categories -newspapers, commercial jobs in coated woodfrees, magazines, and books -the top prizes went to Dutch,  German, Portuguese, Spanish and Swiss printing companies. In newspapers, the only category where there was no Gold prize, the top one was a silver award granted to Spanish newspaper ABC. In magazines, Spinhex of the Netherlands got the gold with its tridimensional magazine Indruk, issue 14 and in books, Printer ofPortugal got two gold awards, in softcover and hardcover books, while AWS of Germany got the gold for the Best innovative book covers category.

In its second year, the CmykAwards was created by Agora Comunicação of Portugal with the aim of honouring the best achievements of European printing. This year's contest received almost 300 jobs as entries, both from large and small companies, and from countries as far apart as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Next year's contest is scheduled to be launche in March and the Prize Giving Ceremony is planned for the first weekend of October, in France.