Mark your calendars and save the date! Our 2012 workshop offerings include: 

New Media Boot Camp for Printers (July 11-12, 2012): Marketers and those who purchase print are constantly looking for new ways to engage and target their audience. Printers, you can respond with highly innovative solutions by offering technologies more...

Orientation to the Graphic Arts (April 2-5, 2012 and October 22-25, 2012): Designed especially for those who would like to update his or her overall knowledge of the printing industry, Orientation to the Graphic Arts is entirely new and incorporates even more hands-on opportunities! Delve into print production workflow more...

G7 Digital Operator Certification (April 17-18, 2012): Explores all of the practical applications of executing and maintaining the conditions required for a successful G7 implementation within your digital printing operations more...

Optimizing Color from your Digital Press (April 24-26, 2012 and September 25-26, 2012): This workshop picks up on what the manufacturer's training fails to cover— a comprehensive look at what it takes to produce reliable, high-quality digital color output more...

Extreme Offset Troubleshoot, Control, Optimize (May 1-3, 2012 and October 16-18, 2012): Working in a live pressroom environment—Extreme Offset will provide you with effective tools and techniques necessary for troubleshooting problems, controlling print components, and optimizing more...

G7 Expert/Professional Training (June 11-13, 2012):  This special IDEAlliance G7 program, hosted by Printing Industries of America, will include a blend of lab instruction and hands-on training where you will learn how to apply the G7 method to achieve the highest quality color output on both offset and digital presses. 

G7 Offset Operator Certification (June 14-15, 2012): Explores all of the practical applications of executing and maintaining the conditions required for a successful G7 implementation within your printing plant facility—and more specifically—on particular pieces of equipment more...

Teachers Update (July 16-20, 2012): The Teacher’s Update provides educators with an understanding of new technologies for education, training, and retraining needs of tomorrow’s work force. This one-week program includes both laboratory and classroom sessions in Printing Industries of America’s production facility more...

Safety Matters: OSHA Compliance for Printers (September 18-19, 2012): Designed especially for those who handle OSHA related compliance issues or need to update their knowledge of regulations pertaining to the printing industry, more...

Printing Industries of America—The Resource for Graphic Communications Training

When you're trying to build and maintain a positive, productive workforce, training is crucial to a successful result. The most profitable printers share key characteristics, including employees that are…

• More effective and efficient
• More knowledgeable
• Constantly improving their skills

And that efficiency, effectiveness, and knowledge translate into greater productivity and greater profitability. Look no further to develop the skills and increase the knowledge of one of your most important resources—your people.

Companies have long turned to Printing Industries of America and their renowned training workshops to increase skill sets in pressroom crews, improve workflows in both prepress and the pressroom, help implement new, productivity-enhancing technology, and present a comprehensive, succinct introduction to graphic arts reproduction for those who want to update their knowledge of the printing industry.

2012 brings more of these outstanding training and education offerings to your company. Our workshops go far beyond just theory and classroom training and are designed to develop skills with equipment demonstrations and hands-on sessions. All topics that are presented in the classroom are reinforced in Printing Industries' world-class production facility that includes the latest in software, prepress, pressroom, and bindery equipment.

For more information on public workshops, please contact Joe Marin at 800-910-4283 ext. 731, or jmarin@printing.org.