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Printing Impressions Partners with InfoTrends to Offer e-Learning Solutions
March 2009 From News
Printing Impressions Magazine, the leading authority on industry trends, emerging technologies news in the Graphic Arts industry, is pleased to announce that it has partnered with InfoTrends, the leading worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industry, to offer readers access to InfoTrends e-Learning sales training program.

Powerhouse Speakers Set for Offset and Beyond 2009 Conference
January 12, 2009 From News
The Web Offset Association (WOA) and Printing Industries of America are pleased to announce powerhouse industry executive keynote speakers for the printer-to-printer business and technology conference, Offset & Beyond 2009, taking place May 4-6 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information regarding Offset and Beyond 2009, please visit: http://www.printing.org/offsetandbeyond.

PrintEd Provides Hope For Jailhouse Printers --Michelson
January 2009 From Printing Impressions
JOHN PHILLIPS may never enjoy freedom again. As an inmate at the Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility in Moundsville, WV, the 41-year-old is serving a long sentence that may very well keep him behind bars for the rest of his life. But that hasn’t stopped him, and about 40 fellow inmates, from participating in the prison’s PrintED-accredited graphic communications training program run by the West Virginia Department of Education. The program includes men from age 18 to some in their 60s and 70s.

Measuring Media Effectiveness: Assessing Media ROI throughout the Purchase Funnel
December 12, 2008 From Press Center
An aggregation of 38 advertiser-commissioned cross-media accountability studies from late 2004 to mid-2008 (this study builds on Marketing Evolution's 2006 analysis by adding 18 new studies). The studies measure media impact across select stages of the consumer purchase decision-making process, focusing on big categories, including automotive, entertainment, electronics and pharmaceuticals.

It's Not Your Father's Magazine Ad: Magnitude and Direction of Recent Changes in Advertising Style
December 12, 2008 From Press Center
Using content analysis of magazine ads highlighted in a series of nine studies conducted from 1969-2002 by Philip Burton (1969) and Scott Purvis and Philip Burton (2002) entitled, “Which Ad Pulled Best?” data sets provide opportunities to observe changes in printed magazine advertising styles and overall effectiveness to printed magazine advertising styles.

BE: USA 2008/2009 - The Media Survey of the United States' Business Elite
December 12, 2008 From Press Center
2,251 respondents, representative of some 630,000 senior executives in over 70,000 U.S. businesses covering a number of different industries, including information technology, telecommunications, financial services, and insurance.  The average BE:USA senior decision-maker is overwhelmingly male (87%), possesses at least one degree (74%), has an average personal (not household) income of over $400,000 and a net worth – excluding real state holdings – exceeding $1.7 million. The BE:USA sample universe represents 1.7 trillion dollars of business purchasing decisions.

Document Communications Industry Trends: 2008 Survey Results
December 12, 2008 From Press Center
Members, customers, and/or subscribers of EDSF, Xplor International, AIIM, OutputLinks, and Doculabs were solicited via e-mail for participation in this study with 109 valid responses tabulated.  Survey results were from buy-side only firms (organizations such as banks and insurance companies that use paper and electronic communications to support their primary business).  No suppliers or print-for-pay providers were surveyed.

iProspect Search Engine Marketing Integration Study
December 12, 2008 From Press Center

Online survey of 289 search engine marketers (screened for familiarity/ involvement with marketing their company's product or those of clients).

Study Objectives:
    • To uncover the extent to which search marketing efforts are integrated with a variety of offline marketing channels
    • To reveal the specific search marketing and integration techniques in use
    • To identify obstacles to the integration process.  

LPIA Names New Officers, Inducts Frantz into Hall of Fame and Details Technical Institute Program
December 2008 From News
The Label Printing Industries of America (LPIA) is pleased to announce the appointment of new officers to the LPIA Board of Directors for 2009–2010. Serving as chairman of the board is Randy Hicks, vice president of operations, WS Packaging Group/SenecaSalem in Franklin, PA. Serving as vice chairman is Bernie Lacy, vice president, Litho Press Inc. in Indianapolis. The secretary/treasurer position will be held by Louis Iovoli, vice president of sales and marketing, Hammer Packaging Corporation, Rochester, NY. William J. Hickey, III will serve as the immediate past chairman. Bill is the president & CEO of Smyth Companies in Minneapolis.

Printing Impressions, Ethical Markets Become Cal Poly Sustainability Conference Sponsors
December 2008 From News
Printing Impressions magazine and Ethical Markets Media join the growing list of sponsors for Cal Poly's 2nd Annual The Business of Green Media sustainability conference to be held on January 22, 2009. The conference is produced by SustainCommWorld and hosted by Cal Poly's Graphic Communication Institute.

Graphics of the Americas Enhances Creative, Prepress Educational Program
December 2008 From News
Graphic of the Americas (GOA) 2009 in Miami Beach is the place to be for art directors, creative and prepress professionals from Feb. 26 to 28, 2009. The Printing Association of Florida (PAF), GOA host, is partnering with Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI) to offer a state-of-the-art series of educational conferences and tutorials developed specifically for art directors, creative and prepress professionals. Aquent is the world's leading design staffing agency and provider of training, consulting, and support services.

PrintED Gives Hope to Incarcerated
December 2008 From News
The Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation (GAERF®) is pleased to announce that, for the first time ever, a prison inmate has been awarded a PrintED® certification. John Phillips, 41, an inmate at the Northern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility in Moundsville, WV received a certification in Offset Press Operations after passing an online standardized PrintED examination.

GRAPH EXPO 2008 Announces Winner of Designer's Dream Office
November 2008 From News
RESTON, VA—November 13, 2008—Shelly Manley, a copy editor at a New Jersey design firm, was named the lucky winner of the Designer's Dream Office Giveaway at GRAPH EXPO® 2008.

Agfa's Saggiomo to Keynote GASC/PIA/GATF Teacher's Conference
October 2008 From News
RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ—October 22, 2008—Agfa Graphics announced today that Tom Saggiomo, president and CEO, will be giving the keynote presentation on Sunday, October 26, from 9:00-10:00 a.m. at the GASC/PIA/GATF Teacher's Conference at GRAPH EXPO® 08. The three-day program is being held October 25-27, 2008 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois during Graph Expo. The conference is jointly presented by the Graphic Arts Show Company and the Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation.

Special Show Floor Features
October 2008 From PI Weekly
Several pavilions on the show floor highlight the industry’s hottest product categories. Whether your interest lies in RFID, wide-format technologies, mailing and fulfillment, or another area of graphic communications, you’re sure to find a show floor feature tailored to your interests.