Certificate IV in Printing and Graphic Arts - ICP40115

Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS:

This qualification applies to individuals working in the printing and graphic arts industry. They apply solutions to a defined range of problems and analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources. They may also take responsibility for production flow and provide leadership and guidance to others with some limited responsibility for the output of others.Licensing/Regulatory InformationNo licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.

Structure

10 elective units

Subjects

• Promote innovation in a team environment
• Undertake basic root cause analysis
• Control production
• Capture a digital image
• Present, secure and support sales solutions
• Lead team effectiveness
• Produce specialised gravure printed product
• Produce PDF files for online or screen display
• Prepare and maintain the work area
• Set up and use complex colour management for production
• Produce specialised relief printed product
• Develop a digital data template
• Set up machine for complex sequenced or multiple folding
• Undertake basic machine maintenance
• Create user interfaces
• Use electronic monitoring systems (converting and finishing)
• Set up for specialised relief printing
• Undertake a complex design brief
• Prepare an imposition format for printing processes
• Set up and monitor in-line printing operations
• Manage personal work priorities and professional development
• Analyse information and assign meta tags
• Apply advanced software applications to digital production
• Set up for complex pad printing
• Supervise and schedule work of others
• Implement a Just-in-Time system
• Set up for complex relief printing
• Set up for complex coating
• Develop guidelines for uploading information to a website
• Create 3D digital models
• Produce product on window gluer
• Mistake proof a production process
• Apply knowledge and requirements of the ink manufacturing sector
• Develop work priorities
• Set up for specialised flexographic printing
• Promote products and services
• Undertake basic production scheduling
• Communicate in the workplace
• Produce specialised pad printed product
• Use on-press monitoring of print quality
• Apply quality assurance techniques
• Use colour management systems
• Build client relationships and business networks
• Run and monitor envelope manufacturing machines
• Set up for complex lithographic printing
• Output complex images
• Apply knowledge of printing machining
• Ensure process improvements are sustained
• Produce graphics using a graphics application
• Operate a smart card machine and pack product
• Create an extensible style sheet
• Use structured problem solving tools
• Apply knowledge and requirements of mail house operations
• Create dynamic web pages
• Produce specialised lithographic printed product
• Set up machine for complex collating or inserting (sheet/section/reel)
• Implement copyright arrangements
• Develop a detailed design concept
• Design games
• Produce pages using a page layout application
• Provide customer service and education
• Apply knowledge and requirements of the screen printing sector
• Apply knowledge and requirements of paper and printing processes
• Create visual design components
• Develop product knowledge
• Set up machine for envelope manufacture
• Facilitate and improve implementation of 5S
• Apply knowledge and processes of converting paper-based products
• Apply knowledge and requirements of the multimedia sector
• Integrate database with a website
• Use colour management for production
• Prepare production costing estimates
• Maintain a safe work environment
• Generate complex imposition
• Set up and produce basic digital print
• Assess competence
• Output complex images direct to plate or press
• Prepare for variable data printing
• Develop and implement strategies for intellectual property management
• Troubleshoot and optimise materials and machinery
• Set up and load in-line smart card machine
• Coordinate the testing of interactive media products
• Set up in-line scoring, folding and gluing machine for envelope manufacture
• Monitor production workflow
• Design e-learning resources
• Author interactive media
• Generate high-end PDF files
• Inspect quality against required standards
• Use on-press print control devices
• Develop document content and structure
• Prepare, load and unload product on and off machine
• Produce specialised flexographic printed product
• Develop cascading style sheets
• Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability
• Identify and plan sales prospects
• Set up for complex gravure printing
• Compose and evaluate typography
• Manage colour
• Edit a digital image
• Access and use the internet
• Set up for specialised gravure printing
• Create an extensible document
• Plan operational processes
• Apply knowledge and requirements of information technology systems in the printing industry
• Analyse manual handling processes
• Set up and produce hand-bound book
• Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
• Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
• Digitise complex images for reproduction
• Implement continuous improvement
• Produce complex coated product
• Create a markup language document to specification
• Facilitate change in an organisation implementing competitive systems and practices
• Produce and manage complex digital print
• Purchase materials and schedule deliveries
• Reconcile process outputs
• Plan, organise and facilitate learning in the workplace
• Restore books
• Implement operational plan
• Apply knowledge and requirements of the converting, binding and finishing sector
• Apply quick changeover procedures
• Undertake inventory procedures
• Mount and demount flexographic plates for complex printing
• Set up for complex flexographic printing
• Set up for specialised lithographic printing
• Apply software applications to digital production
• Create 3D digital animations
• Output images
• Develop a basic design concept
• Prepare 3D digital models for production
• Create a common gateway interface script
• Set up and produce complex digital print
• Select and apply type
• Set up for specialised pad printing
• Set up and operate folder gluer machine
• Set up and operate automated workflow
• Operate a database for digital printing
• Establish networks
• Coordinate implementation of customer service strategies
• Design information architecture
• Apply knowledge of the graphic pre-press sector
• Manually sort mail and parcels

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