PRINTING United Alliance Partners with IT Strategies to Address Evolution of Printing Industry Classifications Facebook Facebook 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 and analysis across the industry in a more coherent manner. Getting the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to adopt a new and more precise classification, if we are successful, will help everyone understand the breadth and depth of the printing industry much better.”