Certificate III in Print Communications - ICP31415

TasTAFE

Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS: 03041M

This qualification applies to individuals working as a pre-media tradesperson. Typically they design and prepare layouts and artwork, manipulate images and text to meet production and design requirements and apply solutions to a defined range of problems associated with, and characteristic to, the print medium. They may also provide some leadership and guidance to others with some limited responsibility for the output of others.Licensing/Regulatory Information No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.

Structure

  • 21 units: 4 core
  • 17 elective

Subjects

  • Manipulate and incorporate audio into multimedia presentations
  • Transfer digital files
  • Control production
  • Capture a digital image
  • Produce PDF files for online or screen display
  • Ensure website content meets technical protocols and standards
  • Create pages using a page layout application
  • Contribute to workplace innovation
  • Set up and use complex colour management for production
  • Prepare for personalised digital printing
  • Sustain process improvements
  • Undertake a complex design brief
  • Prepare an imposition format for printing processes
  • Scan images for reproduction
  • Analyse information and assign meta tags
  • Maintain interactive content
  • Develop drawing skills to communicate ideas
  • Use basic drawing techniques
  • Make photopolymer plates (flexographic)
  • Manage the impact of change on own work
  • Manage digital files
  • Undertake basic production scheduling
  • Communicate in the workplace
  • Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
  • Use colour management systems
  • Make a presentation
  • Output complex images
  • Produce graphics using a graphics application
  • Electronically combine complex images
  • Use structured problem solving tools
  • Produce and manage basic digital print
  • Produce gravure cylinders manually
  • Develop a detailed design concept
  • Produce pages using a page layout application
  • Integrate colour theory and design processes
  • Create 2D digital animations
  • Manually combine spot colour and basic four-colour images
  • Produce relief plates
  • Produce gravure cylinders electronically
  • Communicate as part of a work team
  • Use colour management for production
  • Maintain a safe work environment
  • Generate complex imposition
  • Set up and produce basic digital print
  • Output complex images direct to plate or press
  • Explore and apply the creative design process to 2D forms
  • Generate high-end PDF files
  • Inspect quality against required standards
  • Use development software and ICT tools to build a basic website
  • Develop cascading style sheets
  • Compose and evaluate typography
  • Undertake root cause analysis
  • Manage colour
  • Edit a digital image
  • Deliver and monitor a service to customers
  • Access and use the internet
  • Produce offset lithographic plates
  • Preflight and import complex images for digital devices
  • Use typography techniques
  • Apply colour to design brief
  • Undertake digital proofing
  • Apply 5S procedures
  • Create a markup language document to specification
  • Create graphics using a graphics application
  • Produce multiple image plates
  • Develop knowledge of the printing and graphic arts industry
  • Purchase materials and schedule deliveries
  • Incorporate video into multimedia presentations
  • Manually combine complex four-colour images
  • Operate and maintain computer resources
  • Apply cost factors to work practices
  • Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
  • Apply scripting language in authoring
  • Create and test an interactive CD-ROM/DVD
  • Apply competitive systems and practices
  • Produce a typographic image
  • Output images
  • Apply web authoring tool to convert client data for websites
  • Digitise images for reproduction
  • Develop a basic design concept
  • Create a common gateway interface script
  • Proof images
  • Select and apply type
  • Operate a database for digital printing
  • Manage sales and service delivery
  • Produce photopolymer plates for pad printing

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