Highline Community College’s Graphic Production – Print Media program received three honors at the 2009 Premier Print Awards, the graphic arts industry’s largest international printing competition.

“Each year, the field of entries attracts impressive work from some of the best printers in the world,” said Michael Makin, president and CEO of Printing Industries of America. “The craftsmanship and hard work of the students in the graphic production program at Highline enabled them to produce three award-winning pieces in the face of very stiff competition.”

The Premier Print Awards, hosted by Printing Industries of America, promotes excellence in print communications and rewards organizations and individuals who produce the best in printed media.

Competing against thousands of entries from printing and graphic arts firms around the globe, Highline won three Certificates of Merit for their entries:

• North Seattle Community College ‑ Licton Springs Review

• Humanities Instructors of Washington ‑ Crosscurrents 2007

• Green River Community College ‑ Espial 2008

Highline’s Graphic Production – Print Media has won more than 70 awards in the last five years in various international and state printing competitions.

The program trains students in every aspect of the print trade from prepress, preflight, press and bindery to customer service and printing sales and marketing.

Students spend on average 12 hours a week involved in real-world production tasks at Highline’s 10,000-square-foot printing facility and produce more than 90 projects a month.

Students may earn an Associate of Applied Science degree or a certificate in the program. A degree may be completed in two years and a certificate may be completed in one year.

For more information about the Graphic Production – Print Media program, visit http://graphicproduction.highline.edu

For more information about the Premier Print Awards, visit www.printing.org.