Fairfax Media’s Rural Press Mandurah took the newspaper printing gold in last night’s Western Australia Printing Industry Craftsmanship Awards, with a magazine insert for News Limited’s ‘Sunday Times’ winning heatset gold for contract printer PMP.

Some 35 gold, 41 silver and 37 bronze medals were shared out, with Colourpress and WA Newspapers also among the medal winners.

The Rural Press wins came for the January edition of ‘Ripe’ and for ‘Farm Weekly’, while PMP won for the October 2-8, 2011, edition of the ‘Sunday Times Magazine’.

Printing Industries’ member services national manager and WA state manager Paul Nieuwhof says an exceptionally high standard was maintained: “All our gold winners now go on to represent Western Australia at the National Print Awards next May in Melbourne,” he says.

Among special awards, the Fujifilm Fuji Xerox industry recognition award was won by Ian Smith of Geon Perth and the Kodak best of category award by Scott Print.

Web printing winners were:

Newspapers, category 24: gold– Rural Press Mandurah for Ripe January; silver– Colourpress for West Residential; bronze– Rural Press Mandurah for Landmark.

Newspapers, category 25: gold– Rural Press Mandurah for Farm Weekly; silver– Colourpress for Western Suburbs Weekly April 14, 2012; bronze– WA Newspapers for ‘The West Australian’ March 3, 2012.

Newspaper inserts: gold– PMP Print for ‘STM - The Sunday Times Magazine’; silver–

PMP Print for ‘Kitchen Warehouse - Christmas Delight the Ultimate Guide’; bronze– Colourpress for ‘West Weekend’ May 12, 2012.