industry experts and educators discuss the problem of skilled labor shortage in the printing industry, as well as possible solutions.

By Cheryl Adams

Getting the Word Out

—Ted Ringman, VP of development, Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation; e-mail: tring1998@aol.com

An important piece of the recruitment puzzle is the industry’s lobbying efforts. It’s one of the most critical areas. Federal and state level funding for education programs is based on information about that industry, i.e., job stats, names/titles of positions, pay rate, etc.