FAQ

The Print University (TPU) provides an introduction to the Graphic Arts and Production Printing industries through on-demand, video learning. TPU fills the missing gap for general industry knowledge once passed through internships and on-the-job training. It is perfect for new hires without industry experience or those with years of experience that need to learn new segments or topics. It is also an excellent resource for hardware and software vendors who hire business and technical team members without print industry experience.

TPU is offered to individual subscribers through the Vimeo On-Demand video platform based on a monthly subscription. Enterprise content licensing is based on annual subscriptions.

Anyone who wants to learn more about the production printing industry from a team with over 6 decades of combined experience.

We have provided multiple ways to evaluate TPU. You can view the six abbreviated demos on our home page or two complete courses using the links in the “Demonstrations” area.

Individual subscriptions are limited to a single-instance and a single-login administered entirely through Vimeo’s Video On Demand platform. These subscriptions are self-serviced including sign-up, viewing, billing, and account management strictly through Vimeo. Vimeo is a video service similar to YouTube.

Enterprise subscriptions are for industry participants (OEMs, franchises, industry associations, software vendors, and similar organizations) that need to distribute the courses to a wider audience. Our annual content licensing subscription allows enterprises to embed all general audience TPU courses, excluding bespoke courses created for individual clients, into a Learning Management System (LMS), website, or similar content distribution platform. Additionally, we provide timestamped English language transcriptions that can be used to enhance search and discovery of content across the entire TPU library.

For those wanting to translate the courses into other lanages, a fully edited English language transcription is available for you to use with your preferred language translation partner.

There are 60+ courses and growing, with a combined viewing time over roughly 17 hours. The average course length is approximately 20 minutes, with the shortest at 5 minutes.

Yes, the course content plan can be viewed in our Course Calendar section here. The plan is subject to time and content changes. See the Custom Development section below if your requirements are unique.

Pat McGrew uses her decades technical and marketing experience to lead the industry toward optimized business processes and production workflows. She has helped companies to define their five-year plans, audited workflow processes, and developed sales team interventions and education programs. Pat is the Co-Author of 8 industry books, editor of A Guide to the Electronic Document Body of Knowledge, and a regular contributor to Inkjet Insight and WhatTheyThink.com.

Ryan McAbee helps OEMs and PSPs define and build their future through consulting, market analysis, product strategy, sales enablement, and industry education services. Ryan has spent over 20 years immersed in the technology that powers print, working with a wide range of well-known and industry leading vendors and print service providers.

Individuals or print service providers needing a limited number of users, should subscribe through Vimeo. Individual subscriptions are specific to one e-mail account/user and charged monthly by Vimeo until canceled.

Enterprise (OEMs, software vendors, industry associations, etc.) should contact sales@theprintuniversity.com to scope use and pricing.

Simply go to Vimeo.com and log in or download the Vimeo app (Apple iOS or Android) for your mobile device.

Embedding the content is slightly different based on your learning managment system (LMS), website, or other platform in use. At a high level, it requires two steps.

• Step1: You must let the TPU team know what website domain(s) [www.ourwebsite.com] you will use to host the TPU courses.
• Step 2: After that, simply copy the relevant link or embed codes from our course content sheet into the appropriate area of your software solution.

Payment for individual subscriptions to TPU are administered by the Vimeo platform. The subscription is monthly with automatic renewal until canceled.

If you have billing questions, please contact Vimeo.

Payments for enterprises are arranged by invoice based on the agreed terms of content licensing and distribution.

Individual subscribers should follow directions provided by Vimeo to cancel their subscription.

Individuals with a promo code must enter that into the appropriate checkout area at Vimeo. The promo code is only for a one-time discount for the first month of your subscription. The discount will not apply to any additional months. Subscriptions are charged monthly until cancelled.

The courses are conversational discussions on the specific topics supported by presentations, show-and-tells, and software demonstrations for variety.

Enterprise subscribers will also have access to full transcripts of the video content for easier search and discovery. A fully edited transcript can also be used for you to translate into additional languages for your users.

Absolutely!

Contact sales@theprintunversity.com to get started. Ask us about competitive positioning, industry updates, product use case overviews, customer testimonials, and more.

Yes, for enterprise subscribers.

There are two paths for translation into languages other than English:

1. Send an email to sales@theprintuniversity.com explaining your translation needs and we will scope the cost to support the language(s) you need.
2. We also offer fully-edited version of the transcription that you can use for DIY transalations or provide to your own translation provider.