Veteran successful award entrants Southern Colour Print and The Print Room, a first-time entrant, both received three gold medals and two highly commended awards.
Allied Press - publisher of the Otago Daily Times - won a gold medal and a highly commended award.
The Print Room is a design, screen printing and embroidery business which has grown from a two-person operation to employing eight full-time staff, along with several seasonal staff, in Kaikorai Valley.
Over the last 18 months, the business - co-founded by Jon Thom and Chris Brun five years ago - had been on "a bit of a journey'' around research and development and looking at changing the inks it used, Mr Brun said.
The Print Room now used 100% water-based inks, imported from the United Kingdom, rather than plastic-based inks, and he was "pretty stoked'' to offer that point of difference to customers.
Mr Brun quipped they were sick of telling people they were good at what they did, and so they decided to enter the awards to accredit that.
He was proud the business could stay based in Dunedin, yet a lot of its business was outside the city.
He was also delighted to be on the same stage as Southern Colour Print, which won the business print category and has won 72 gold medals in the awards over the past 25 years.
The supreme winner at the awards was Wellington-based Printlink for its Oranga Tamariki panels.
