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Innova Art scoop 4 DIMA Awards to add to the TIPA Award gained in 2006 for ‘Best Independent Inkjet Paper’. Like TIPA, the DIMA Awards are selected from a panel of digital Imaging editors from hundreds of products offered from innovative companies at the PMA trade show from the Photographic industry where the awards were announced and the results on display. Color patches are used in the testing on criteria such as neutral gray balance reproduction, saturation, shadow detail and quality, overall tonality and highlights. The DIMA Shoot out Awards Innova has been awarded are: Best Photo Media 8.5 x 11” Best Photo Media 13 x 19” Best Photo Media 24”+ All for FibaPrint® White Gloss 300gsm And the dual award: Best Alternative Substrate - with Colorburst RIP Also for FibaPrint® White Gloss 300gsm Read more about DIMA in our Press Release in the Download section.

Innova Art have recently completed a run of extremely successful and high profile exhibitions to further endorse the Innova name, branding and introduce new products to the market. The Paperworld annual show in Frankfurt, Germany saw the new FibaPrint Ultra Smooth Gloss 285gsm, and showcased the whole FibaPrint range. Also introduced was the elegant new labelling for all Innova box and roll packaging, which gives the range a much cleaner, sophisticated look. The papers have been split into 4 colour coded catagories to make selction easier; FibaPrint, Fine Art, Photo and Canvas Ranges. March saw PMA in Las Vegas, from 8th-11th again with a great buz around the booth, especially helped by the announcement of Innova winning 4 DIMA (Digital Imaging Marketing Association) Awards for the original FibaPrint, White Gloss 300gsm. Please download the latest issue of Innovation News – PMA Edition by going to our download section, or click on the link below www.innovaart.com/leaflets.php

David Osborn and FibaPrint® from Innova Art headline at Paperworld, Frankfurt, Germany, from 24-28 January 2007 As Paperworld, now established as one of the international paper industry’s most important gatherings, opens at Messe Frankfurt, Germany, a company has to have a big story to grab the attention of the world’s press. Photographer David Osborn is more used to covering the story than being the focus of it, but as he takes centre-stage on the Innova Art stand at this year’s show, he is helping to develop the new angle on photography’s biggest story in recent years. The story is that expert photographers are switching to digital because it gives them the speed, efficiency and, above all, the quality of output they require. The new development is that, with the award-winning FibaPrint range from Innova Art, photographers have a digital photographic paper that matches and even outperforms the traditional alternatives. David Osborn’s stunning, 16 x 48inch, limited edition digital images of the British landscape, on show on the Innova Art stand will prove as much. ‘My paper of choice is Innova Art’s fabulous 300gsm FibaPrint White Gloss, (Max Black) paper. The images are printed on an Epson 9800 with K3 inks – a combination of printer, ink and paper that produces prints superior to the finest quality darkroom fibre print in terms of archival performance, dMax and tonal contrast range,’ says Osborn. ‘Crucially, the prints retain the look and feel of a traditional darkroom fibre print – no longer are digital prints limited to the matte watercolour look. FibaPrint Gloss bridges the last major hurdle between traditional darkroom prints and digital photography.’ A veteran press photographer and former picture editor, a commercial photographer who can count [...]