Events & Training Calendar

Lean focuses on identifying and eliminating all kinds of waste and non-value-added activities with the goals of slashing costs, faster throughput, improved financial performance, and higher customer satisfaction.

Total Immersion: Optimizing Color from Your Digital Press is a brand new workshop designed to supply you with a comprehensive look at what it takes to produce reliable, high-quality digital output. The instruction will provide two intense days of hands-on training to get you totally immersed—and totally knowledgeable—on the subject of digital color and press optimization.

This conference is designed for any graphic communications company looking for practical ways to save time and money through process improvement. It is ideal for presidents, plant managers, vice presidents of operations, and quality managers—anybody playing a vital role in their company’s quality efforts.

Lead Sheetfed Press Operation offers the tools and techniques to control and optimize your press and its components, resulting in decreased downtime, reduced waste and spoilage, quick makeready, more precise troubleshooting, and improved press performance. Increase profitability and enhance the quality of print production—register today!

PIFE is a network of professionals who hold positions in finance and administration at Printing Industries of America member companies. PIFE members receive information and education on what it takes to successfully manage a company’s finance and administration functions and to stay abreast of the latest technologies and keys to profitability. PIFE meetings provide continuing education credits.

The BIA Mid-Management Conference brings together mid-managers from trade binderies, graphic finishing, information packaging, custom loose-leaf manufacturing, and the suppliers to those industries. Be prepared for a blitz of information, plant tours in the Baltimore area, new products and ideas, as well as unparalleled networking with your peers from around the world.

The SheetSim–SHOTS training simulator is a highly interactive software program that simulates the experience of operating a sheetfed offset press. This session teaches companies and schools how to use it to teach press personnel to recognize, analyze, and correct print problems.

This workshop is designed to help the printer, designer, ad agency that is embracing VD as a marketing solution for their customer to move forward with an deeper understanding of the tools and techniques needed for them to be successful as the VD market continues to grow and mature in the process.

What is your company’s greatest resource? It should be your employees! With a knowledgeable staff, your company can operate more efficiently while providing outstanding customer service. 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

2010 Printing Industries of America Fall Administrative Meetings Location: The Westin San Francisco Market Street, San Francisco, California