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RELEASE: IMMEDIATELY
DATE: August 11, 2009
CONTACT: Tony Sittner: (206) 878-3710,
ext. 3068; tsittner@highline.edu
Lisa Skari: (206) 870-3705,
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Highline Community College
excels in international print competition
Graphic production
program takes home three awards
DES
MOINES, Wash. — 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:
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.
Highline
Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King
County. With approximately 16,900 students and 350,000 alumni, it is one of the
state’s largest institutions of higher education. The college offers a wide
range of academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with
day, evening, online and weekend classes.
With
the most diverse population of any college in Washington state, Highline takes
a multicultural approach to education for the success of all its students and
the prosperity of its surrounding communities. Alumni include former Seattle Mayor
Norm Rice, entrepreneur Junki Yoshida and Washington
state poet laureate Sam Green.
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