Printing is America's third largest manufacturing industry employing over 1.2 million people in almost 46,000 establishments, and selling over $160 billion of products in 2001. But that is just the beginning of the story. Print is the original information technology that has spanned a millennium. It represents and remains the most widely adopted, portable, flexible, economical information technology ever invented. It literally touches every human's life like no other information technology. Print is a technologically diverse industry where digital and analog worlds come together to produce diverse products such as newspapers, magazines, packaging, marketing collateral, financial documents, instrumentation for vehicles, catalogs, as well as fine art lithographs. Learn more about print and how it affects you.

Graphic Communications The processes and industries that create, develop, produce, and disseminate products utilizing or incorporating words or pictorial images to convey information, ideas, and feelings. Graphic Communications products facilitate learning, enjoyment, motivation, and commerce. Graphic Communications includes the family of market segments embracing technologies of printing, publishing, packaging, electronic imaging, and their allied industries; they are often referred to as the graphic arts, print, or imaging industries.