e-Flash: Who will win Best of Show? • Discount FSC Certification • OSHA Violations • HR Best Practices • and more!

March 29, 2018

www.piasc.org

Serving Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Ventura & Clark Counties

The Count Down Begins: Awarding the IDEAS, SOLUTIONS, and ACHIEVERS on April 13th!

Who will win People's Choice Award? Who will walk away with Best of Show? All winners of the regional printing competition - Print Excellence Awards will be announced at Graphics Night on April 13th at Pacific Palms Resort in City of Industry. Bring your key employees, your clients, your partner, your friends to celebrate the IDEAS, SOLUTIONS and ACHIEVERS!

Make your reservations today as time is running out. Tickets are $100.00 for members.

If you have any questions about Graphics Night, contact Kristy Villanueva at Ext. 215.

Thanks to our sponsors:

Kaiser Permanente

Humana

4th Generation Recycling

The Hanover Insurance Group

Community Bank

AG Adjustments, Ltd.

PIASC Insurance Services, Inc.

UPS

Healthnet

TASC

Preferred Employers Insurance

Prudential Overall Supply

Spicers Paper & Kelly Paper

CardConnect

Heidelberg USA, Inc.

GMG Americas

The Hartford

VSP

Huge Savings on FSC ® Certification

Printers continue to see FSC® Chain of Custody Certification as a requirement of many of their customers.

For many print providers, the cost and discipline required in order to be part of the supply chain is difficult to justify, but that may no longer be true.

PIASC can help!

Group FSC certification is available at significantly reduced cost, to qualified members of PIASC. To qualify, companies must have annual sales less than $5 million of “forest product printing”. This is generally “ink on paper” and can include commercial printing, packaging, etc.

There is no difference between individual certificates and the PIASC group certificate regarding use of FSC logo, use of certified paper, etc.

Group FSC certification fee is $1,695.00 per year, inclusive of travel, a savings of several thousand dollars off individual prices.

Learn More

Operation Sublimation, Mission: Wide-Format Graphics - Irvine

Whether you are starting up a business, or a business needing to improve your product line, learn from the experts about one of the industry's hottest trends for banners, soft signage, and interior applications. Our hands-on training saves business money in production costs and helps to avoid costly reprints.

This Mission is a must for:

Anyone struggling with wide-format dye sublimation color control
Those looking for better profiles (less ink, more color)
Printers who need dye sublimation specifics about materials, inks and processes for your business model that raise profitability.

Receive hands-on training about:

Dye sublimation ink technologies
What makes a great paper
RIP software for dye sublimation -- reduce ink usage and hit those spot (or brand colors)
Color management for dye sublimation
Costs and return on investment
Transfer vs. Direct Print
Fabric dos and don'ts
Flatbed and rotary heat presses

This program is brought to you by: SGIA (Specialty Graphic Imaging Association)

April 18 - 20, 2018

Roland DGA Corporation

15363 Barranca Pkwy

Irvine, CA 92618

We Want your Input!

PIA to study HR best practices in new management survey.

Printing Industries of America (PIA) Center for Print Economics and Management is once again partnering with the Department of Management at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) on a new study exploring recruiting, hiring, and human resources best practices throughout the printing and graphic communications industry. Survey participants are asked to complete a short 10 to 15 minute survey and in exchange all participants will receive a comprehensive report of the findings.

The survey and subsequent Management Study will give printers insight into the best recruiting, hiring, and human resources practices. The project explores the relationship between human resources practices, profitability, and other key performance metrics. Survey participants will receive a comprehensive report of the findings.

The survey can be found at www.printing.org/hiringsurvey or you may click on the link below to begin. For more information about the Center for Print Economics and Management or the survey, please contact Dr. Ronnie Davis at rdavis@printing.org .

START SURVEY HERE

OSHA Goes Back More Than Five Years for Repeat Violations

OSHA can look beyond five years to assess “repeat violations” when considering the penalties against an employer for breaching workplace safety regulations, a U.S. appellate court has ruled.

Repeat violations can be assessed at 10 times the amount of a safety violation, which makes the ruling a game-changer for companies who have been cited more than once, even if that citation was issued more than five years ago. It increases the stakes for employers who until now chose not to contest more routine violations because of the cost of defending them.

Under OSHA regulations, the maximum penalty for a serious violation is $12,934, but if it’s not the first time OSHA has cited the employer for the infraction, the maximum fine balloons to $129,336.

Up until 2015, the agency would typically not look back more than three years when deciding if a violation was a repeat. But in 2015, OSHA changed that period to five years in the field operations manuals for its inspectors.

Source: Joanne Cadenas, Director - Insurance Service LinkedIn Article

The Best in Class Workshop - 2018

Best in Class Workshop 2018 will take place on:

Wednesday, April 4th

between the hours of 9:00 am and 2:30 pm

at Fullerton College.

You will have the opportunity to see and learn about:

New extended gamut tools in the GMG Color Plugin for Photoshop
Advanced package modeling tools in PACKZ
Hybrid PACKZ Photorealistic renderings of packaging from CAD
Rapid prototyping with the new Epson SC 80600
Color accurate press proofs that match Flexo and Litho printing
New workflow comparison study with benchmark data
Much more!

This event is FREE!

How to Use a Content Scorecard to Publish Better Blog Posts

Want to replicate the success of your best-performing blog content? Wondering how to review and rate content for quality and value?

Why a Content Scorecard?

Although you have myriad options to increase your blog’s quality, creating a content scorecard can help you replicate the success of your best-performing content every time.

A content scorecard is a concept that Jeff Goins and his team developed as a way to increase the traffic, engagement, and overall effectiveness of their blog. After they put it to work, they saw a 150% increase in daily traffic and more than doubled their average comments per post.

The idea is easy: outline a set of criteria for every blog post and add a point for each criterion your post meets. The goal is to get a perfect score every time. So if you have four criteria, for example, you’re aiming for a 4.0 GPA. The strength of this framework is in its simplicity: it’s clear, sustainable, and helpful.