The foundation fulfills its missions through its five divisions: research, training, consulting, quality controls, and publications.
Its headquarters in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, includes state-of-the-art prepress, pressrooms, testing laboratories, libraries, and classrooms that provide a platform for sheetfed and web printing research.
In 2009 after an extensive re-branding initiative, the association changed its name to Printing Industries of America and unveiled a new logo.
The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation has subsequently become a division of Printing Industries of America known as the Center for Technology and Research.
It was headquartered in New York City and Chicago for many years until the 1960s, when it was renamed GATF and moved near to Carnegie Mellon University, with whom it often partnered.