Redefining the Print and Graphic Arts Industry for Tomorrow’s Printers

This article was contributed by Larry Kroll, Vice President, Development, PGSF, whose ongoing commitment to expanding the printing industry by cultivating the next generations of printers and graphic artists through the PGSF has resulted in an incredibly successful foundation for the past 56 years.

Graphic arts students pose with Ben before a pressroom tour of Printing Industries of America headquarters in Sewickley, PA.

Twenty-eight years ago, long before our current Print and Graphic Scholarship Foundation (PGSF) scholarship applicants were even born, one of this country's leading scientists, Dr. Egon Spengler, stated for the record that “Print is dead.” Here is the video clip you may remember from 1984 declaring, “Print is dead.”

For almost three decades the “experts” have been declaring that the printing industry was either dead or dying. However, I don't believe that there is any knowledgeable person out there today who would not say that the printing industry is still alive, however, gravely injured.