Barbieri Excellence Award
Recognising outstanding organisations that demonstrate excellence in color measurement and top performance in professional digital printing, worldwide.
Celebrating excellence in color measurement and digital printing
The BARBIERI Excellence Award recognizes customers, partners, research organizations, and professional users for notable achievements connected with color measurement and digital printing.
The award highlights contributions in customer advocacy, business development, workflow implementation, research, and technical innovation.
Candidates may be proposed by BARBIERI employees, customers, partners, users, or the organizations themselves. BARBIERI evaluates the nominations according to the criteria defined for each award category.
AWARD CATEGORIES
Three categories recognizing different forms of achievement
Winners are selected across three categories reflecting different dimensions of outstanding performance in digital printing.
Advocacy & Trust
Recognizing organizations that contribute to long term cooperation, knowledge sharing, customer confidence, and the responsible promotion of professional color measurement.
Business Performance
Outstanding achievements in growth, market coverage, and operational excellence.
Demonstrating measurable results through intelligent color measurement.
Innovation & Research
Outstanding contributions to research, development, and innovation.
From universities and research organisations to pioneering production workflows.
How it works
From nomination to winner
A structured nomination and selection process across the BARBIERI customer and partner community.
Nominations Open
Anyone in the Barbieri ecosystem can nominate: customers, partners, employees, or third parties who recognise outstanding performance.
Internal Assessment
Barbieri reviews all nominations alongside internal sales data and performance assessments to identify finalists in each category.
Winners and Finalists Revealed
Finalists and Winners are announced on the BARBIERI website and may be featured through BARBIERI news, social media, events, and customer communication.
Who can participate?
The Excellence Award is open to any organisation that works with Barbieri, whether as a customer, partner, or part of the broader professional printing community.
- Barbieri customers worldwide
- Barbieri distribution partners
- Universities and research organisations
- OEM partners and system integrators
- Color management consultants using Barbieri instruments
Who can nominate a company or organisation?
Nominations may be made by the organisation itself, by Barbieri employees, or by any third party who believes a firm deserves recognition for its performance.
- The organisation itself (self-nomination)
- Any Barbieri customer or partner
- Any employee of a Barbieri customer or partner
- Any Barbieri user worldwide
- Third parties who recognise outstanding work
This year's winners are...
We’re proud to announce the winners of the 2026 Barbieri Excellence Award. The award recognizes outstanding work by customers, partners and organizations across the Barbieri ecosystem – judged on demonstrated excellence in color measurement, alongside customer experience, business results, print integration and advocacy, across three categories:
Advocacy & Trust
Colorgate Digital Output Solutions
Business Performance
Future Fashion
Innovation & Research
Sync-Innovation
The winners were chosen from six finalists, selected with special care by the jury: GMG Japan, Colorgate, Future Fashion, Sync-Innovation, CGS Oris and Technologie Grafiche.
Congratulations to the winners and to every finalist. Thank you to all the customers, partners and friends who joined us on this journey. We’re already looking forward to the 2027 award.
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Know someone who deserves recognition?
Nominations for the 2026 award are now closed. Sign up to be notified when nominations open for 2027 — or contact us directly via E-Mail.
Find out how Industry leaders use Barbieri.
COLORGATE Digital Output Solutions GmbH
FUTURE FASHION
Sync-Innovation
Disclaimer:
The BARBIERI Excellence Award is an acknowledgment granted by BARBIERI electronics. It is not an independent certification of products, processes, or compliance with industry standards.
