Founded in 1980, the Printing Technology Association of China (PTAC) is a professional and non-profit social organization composed of printing science and technology workers, printing workers, printing enterprises and institutions and printing-related units in China. It is the foundation member and directorship unit of World Printing & Communication Forum and the initiator of the Forum of Asian Graphic Arts Technology. It has successfully hosted the 7th World Printing Congress, the 4th and 9th Forum of Asian Graphic Arts Technology (FAGAT), and is one of the highly renowned social organizations in the printing industry home and abroad.

   The branch associations and committees subordinating to PTAC include: China Screenprinting & Graphic Imaging Association (CSGIA), Commercial Notes Printing Association, Gravure Printing Association, Digital Printing Association, Flexo Printing Association, IT System Application Association, Academic Committee, Education & Science Popularization Committee, Special Committee for Enterprises Management, Special Committee for Electronics & Network Technology, Special Committee for Flexo Printing Technology, Special Committee for Specialty Printing Technology, Printing History Research Committee, and Editors' Committee for China Printing and China Printing Almanac.

   Printing associations of various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities under direct administration by the state council across China are all member organizations of PTAC.