Professional Development Awards

Our professional development awards take specific units from the NVQs that we offer to provide employers cost effective short, sharp, focussed accreditation aimed at specific aspects of print business. We cover 9 pathways:

Digital Artwork

• Design and produce creative digital colour artwork for print
• Manage colour reproduction in digital pre-press
• Produce approved colour proofs from digital artwork

Digital Printing 

• Manage the colour digital printing machines
• Control the use of variable data with digital printing machines
• Manage colour reproduction in digital pre-press

Flexographic Printing 

• Manage printing machines
• Prepare inks and coatings for business
• Set and use ink drying equipment
• Maintain print equipment in working order

Sheet Fed Lithography

• Manage printing machines
• Prepare inks and coatings for printing
• Maintain print equipment in working order

Web Fed Lithography

• Set up and use ink drying equipment
• Maintain print equipment in working order
• Manage printing machines
• Manage materials handling for newspaper and periodicals print

Print Finishing 1

• Manage guillotines
• Manage adhesive binding machinery
• Set and run multi knife trimming machinery
• Manage folding machinery

Print Finishing 2

• Manage folding machinery
• Manage guillotines
• Manage in setting, stitching, and trimming machinery

Print Administration (Customer Service)

• Understand and contribute to the achievement of customer satisfaction
• Produce and analyse estimates for print or print services
• Review print production costs and prepare invoices

Print Administration (Production)

• Produce and analyse estimates for print or print services
• Plan, schedule and monitor print production
• Order products and services

If you’re interested in these qualifications, the next step is to get in touch and we will work out the best package for your organisation.