PRINTING United Alliance Partners with IT Strategies to Address Evolution of Printing Industry Classifications
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PRINTING United Alliance announces its partnership with IT Strategies on an initiative to provide the printing industry with a comprehensive taxonomy designed to address the printing industry’s under-representation in government statistics and to help prepare the printing industry for growing business in the future.
According to Ford Bowers, CEO of PRINTING United Alliance, “The primary purpose of this initiative is to create uniformity of nomenclature, which helps discoverability of content and information online, at events, and across the industry. Using the same names and definitions in the same way will allow printers, OEMs and suppliers, and everyone else involved in printing to utilize a common ‘language’ that eliminates some of the confusion that currently exists. It will also be very useful in providing statistical tracking
PRINTING United Alliance CEO Ford Bowers today commended the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform on its recent hearing to review legislative proposals that would position the United States Postal Service (USPS) on more sustainable financial footing. The hearing represents step one in advancing postal reform legislation through the 117
th Congress, a goal Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney has stated she wishes to see completed in the first 100 days of this legislative session.
In addition to USPS leadership, including Chairman of the USPS Board of Governors, The Honorable Rob Blom, and Postmaster General Mr. Louis DeJoy; today’s expert witnesses included Mr. Joel Quadracci, CEO of Quad Graphics. Mr. Quadracci testified on behalf of the Coalition for a 21
Idealliance Members Approve Merger with PRINTING United Alliance Merger to close on March 1, 2021
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PRINTING United Alliance and Idealliance announced the intent to merge the two organizations earlier in January. The proposed merger was approved unanimously by each Board of Directors to be followed by consideration of Idealliance members at a meeting of active members today, in accordance with Idealliance Bylaws. Idealliance Members overwhelmingly approved the Plan of Merger with 96% voting in favor which serves as the final step to effectuate the merger.
Dick Ryan, Idealliance CEO said, “The traditional segmentation of print providers has continued to blur and converge, which the shifts in digital printing technologies have accelerated. Over the past few years, PRINTING United Alliance has built an association that addresses all the major segments through expanded membership, an arr
Printing United Alliance (Fairfax, Virginia) and Idealliance (Alexandria, Virginia) have announced their intention to merge the two key industry organizations into one after the board of directors at each company unanimously voted in favour of the merger. Last year, SGIA and PIA officially merged to become Printing United Alliance – the largest, most comprehensive printing and graphic arts association in the U.S. This new venture with Idealliance will further support the association’s investment into the long-term success of the U.S. printing industry. The proposed merger, which was approved by Idealliance’s Board of Directors yesterday, will be finalized and made official on March 1, 2021.
Registration Open for TAGA Virtual Event
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now open and free for attendees.
TAGA Presents will be held virtually this year on March 11 and March 23 from 2-3:30 pm EST both days.
Being headlined by industry notables, the special event provides insight into technology breakthroughs and impacts in printing, graphic communications, and related fields. Being addressed are developments in sustainable packaging, color matching across processes, exploiting data from MIS solutions, and the state of printed and hybrid electronics. Registration for the event can be completed online here.
Over the course of the event, being presented in two 90-minute sessions, attendees will have the unique advantage to learn about the progress in sustainable flexible packaging; how packaging can be used as a profit center to engage consumer interest in new and innovative ways; how to use data from management information systems (MIS) to analyze trends and make smarter decisio