Printing & Imaging Association Mountain States (PIAMS) held its 17th Annual PRIDE Award Banquet at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver on April 21, 2009 to honor companies that received Printing & Related Industries Dedicated to Excellence awards.

Best of Show Awards were given in four divisions to: Foils & Dies Vintage Pressworks (Division I), Peczuh Printing (Division II), the former Spectrographics (Division III) and Publication Printers Corp. (Division IV) for their outstanding work printed in 2008 by comedian Phil Palisoul who kept the audience in stitches throughout the evening.

Award winning pieces and a full list of the companies recognized and the awards they received are on the Printing & Imaging Association Mountain States website www.piams.org.