PRINTING United Alliance Named a DCA Live Red Hot Association

Awards ceremony held in Washington DC on June 8 recognized those associations with fast growth and as doing innovate work within their respective industries    


Fairfax, Virginia — PRINTING United Alliance, the most comprehensive member-based printing and graphic arts association in the U.S., today announces it has been named a DCA Live Red Hot Association. Each year, leaders in the DC business community are asked by DCA Live to nominate associations that are growing fast and/or doing interesting and innovative work, and the Alliance was among those nominated and named to the prestigious list. More about the award can be found here: https://dca-live.com/2023-red-hot-associations

“DCA Live and our great event partners are once again honored to recognize some of the DC region’s most innovative and fastest-growing associations,” says Doug Anderson, founder and president, DCA Live. “The leaders of these organizations should be proud of themselves for navigating an incredibly challenging and disruptive few years.”


PRINTING United Alliance implemented an array of services and resources throughout the pandemic to continue serving its members and the printing industry at large with the support necessary to navigate the pandemic, including best practices in OSHA guidance, HR insight, economic analysis, a dedicated COVID-19 Resource Channel, critical content, webinars, and so much more. 

“We’re honored and proud to have been named by DC community leaders as an association with fast growth and as doing innovative work,” says Ford Bowers, CEO, PRINTING United Alliance. “Our organization recognized the challenges and difficulties for our members and the industry during the pandemic and accepted the duty as a leader to support and serve them all in navigating the waters during that time. We thank those who nominated the Alliance; we look forward to continuing to grow and serve.” 

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About DCA Live
Since 2014, DCA Live has hosted live and virtual events featuring the fastest growing companies and most dynamic professionals in the Washington, DC region's legal, association & nonprofit, entrepreneur, federal tech, real estate and corporate communities. DCA Live also publishes a daily digital newsletter featuring profiles of leading companies and professionals from these industries and news and insights on DC business.

About PRINTING United Alliance  
PRINTING United Alliance is the most comprehensive member-based printing and graphic arts association in the United States, comprised of the industry’s vast communities. The Alliance serves industry professionals across market segments with preeminent education and training via iLEARNING+, workshops, events, research, government and legislative representation, safety, and environmental sustainability guidance, as well as resources from our leading media brands – Printing Impressions, Packaging Impressions, Wide-format Impressions, In-plant Impressions, Apparelist, and Print+Promo Marketing. Now a division of PRINTING United Alliance, Idealliance is a global leader in standards training and certification for printing and graphic arts operations across the entire industry supply chain. 

PRINTING United Alliance also produces the PRINTING United Expo, the most influential days in printing. The expansive display of technology and supplies, education, programming, and services are showcased to the industry at large, and represents all market segments in one easily accessed place.