Education and Training — Skilled Labor: Help Wanted!

• Young people do not think printing is sexy, exciting, technologically savvy or high paying.

• Parents think printing is hard, dirty, factory work that is apt to be outsourced.

• Parents of college students don’t want their child’s degree to be wasted on a blue-collar career in manufacturing.

• Most colleges do not offer degrees in printing or graphic communications. Only 230 offer graphic communications programs, and less than 1,000 college graduates obtain degrees in printing each year.