Welcome to the information age! Billions of books, newspapers, magazines, brochures, and other documents are produced every year in our modern society. The good thing is that you can play an integral part in this explosion of information when you plan your career in the printing industry. If you are creative and artistic and enjoy technical equipment, graphic communications is just for you.

You will be taught the essentials of printing processes and typography. You will then be able to run offset presses for single and multicolor work, and you will be able to estimate and complete a printing job from start to finish. You will learn the basics of screen-printing, and be able to design and print your own T-shirts. Graphic communications students also learn estimating, illustration, photography, computing units of measurement (standard & printers), planning and layout of printing jobs, operations of an offset press, darkroom operations, typesetting-using computers and computer programs, desktop publishing, stripping and plate making, bindery, commercial printing and duplication processes, operations of the latest digital scanning and duplication systems available , the Xerox Docutech, and production publisher.

You may begin your career in the printing industry at a quick print shop, a graphic design studio, one of the several newspapers, one of many local commercial printing companies, at one of the local colleges while you continue your advanced studies or in one of the local factories which have in-house printing in graphic departments. You may also wish to continue your education at one of the graphic arts colleges which would prepare you for upper-level management positions in the printing industry or as an owner of your own printing business.