In addition to learning about technology, the Department of Industrial Technology’s Graphic Technologies program includes the study of management and supervision necessary to properly operate successful business enterprises. All printing and publishing processes and methods are presented through laboratory activities, discussion, observation and formal study.

The Graphic Technologies/graphic arts industry is one of the 10 largest industries in the United States. It is a “growth” industry that includes more than 50,000 individual commercial graphic arts facilities distributed throughout all 50 states. There are an additional large number of “in-plant” shops incorporated into business, service and manufacturing firms. More than one million people are employed in this growing and dynamic industry.