City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 2
City & Guilds Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Pre-Press for Print
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits19
- Guided learning118 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Communicating and Working with Others in the Print Working EnvironmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know what information to share with colleagues on your job role and why this is important.
- Share information with colleagues.
- Know why it is important to respond promptly to requests.
- Respond promptly to requests from colleagues.
- Know why good working relationships with colleagues are important and how barriers to this can be overcome.
- Develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues.
Create Digital Artwork for PrintReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare layout of documents for print
- Set text to agreed typographical specifications
- Import and use images in digital artwork
- Proof and correct digital artwork for print
- Create digital artwork for print
Keep Equipment Clean and in Working Order for use in the Printing IndustryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Keep printing equipment clean
- Keep printing equipment in working order
- Keep printing equipment clean and in working order
Knowledge of the Organisations Printing Processes and related informationReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know the Departments within the Organisation and their area of responsibility
- Know the products produced by the Organisation
- Know the types of equipment used within the Organisation for print related work
- Know the printing processes/operations used within the Department(s) worked in
Maintain Health and Safety within a Print Related Working EnvironmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know which health and safety acts, regulations and guidelines apply to the Print working environment.
- Carry out an assessment of hazards and risks in the Print working environment and the types of hazards or risks that can occur
- Identify hazards and assess risks in the Print working environment.
- Adopt safe working practices.
- Adopt and adhere to safe working practices.
- Ensure there is no unauthorised or unsafe access to the working areas.
- Know what to do in the event of accidents or emergencies.
Make Gravure CylindersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Produce gravure cylinders for print
- Prepare the gravure cylinder
- Transfer the image to the cylinder
- Transfer the image to the cylinder
Make lithographic printing platesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Produce lithographic printing plates
- Maintain lithographic printing plates
- Produce lithographic printing plates
Make photopolymer plates for flexographic printingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare photopolymer plates for print
- Process photopolymer plates
- Make photopolymer plates for flexographic printing
Materials Handling, Transportation and Storage within the Print Working EnvironmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and select the required type and quantity of materials.
- Handle and transport materialsin accordance with Company guidelines
- Know the impact of incorrect handling and transporting of materials
- Position /store materials in accordance with organisational procedures.
- Position or store materials in accordance with organisational procedures.
Operate digital printing machinesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare digital printing machines for production
- Operate a digital printing machine
- Operate digital printing machines
Output Digital Image Carriers for PrintReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Impose images electronically
- Prepare images for processing
- Produce and process image carrier
- Produce computer-generated image carriers
Plan and Produce Edited ImagesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Decide on the imaging approach
- Produce edited images
- Plan and produce edited images
Prepare Stencils for PrintingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare the mesh
- Prepare the mesh
- Prepare stencils for production
- Prepare stencils
Send and Receive Digital FilesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Send digital files by electronic means
- Receive digital files by electronic means
- Send and receive digital files
Set and Run GuillotinesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set/programme and run guillotines
- Run guillotines
- Monitor quality of guillotine cutting
- Monitor quality of guillotine cutting
Set and Run multi-knife trimming machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set multi-knife trimming machinery
- Run multi-knife trimming machinery
- Set and run multi-knife trimming machinery
Set and run booklet making machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set booklet-making machinery
- Run booklet making machinery
- Set and run booklet making machinery
Use of scanning techniques to create digital imagesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Decide on the appropriate scanning approach
- Prepare equipment and material for scanning
- Produce and save scanned images in line with the job specification and Company standards
- Plan and capture digital images
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Capture images from specific sources
- Check and archive finished print job records
- Clean down equipment and replace components
- Collate Print
- Collate Print Job Cost Information
- Contribute to maintaining equipment in working order
- Contribution to maintaining equipment in working order
- Control Digital Colour Printing Machines
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Pre-Press for Print
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Communicating and Working with Others in the Print Working Environment
- Create Digital Artwork for Print
- Keep Equipment Clean and in Working Order for use in the Printing Industry
- Knowledge of the Organisations Printing Processes and related information
- Maintain Health and Safety within a Print Related Working Environment
- Make Gravure Cylinders
and 12 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.