City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 2

City & Guilds Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Print Finishing

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

LevelRQF Level 2
Total credits18
Guided learning114 hours
Units in this qualification25

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.

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.

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.

Set and Run Folding MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set the folding machinery
Run Folding machinery
Set and run folding machinery

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 auto punching and cutting machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set auto punching and cutting machinery
Run auto punching and cutting machinery
Set and run auto punching and cutting machinery

Set and Run auto-fed sewing machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set auto-fed sewing machinery
Run auto-fed sewing machinery
Set and run auto-fed sewing machinery

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 multiple hopper feedersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set multiple hopper feeders
Run multiple hopper feeders
Set and run multiple hopper feeders

Set and Run wire binding machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set wire binding machinery
Run wire binding machinery
Set and run wire binding machinery

Set and run Carton Enhancing machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set Carton Enhancing machinery
Run Carton Enhancing machinery
Set and run Carton Enhancing machinery

Set and run adhesive binding machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set adhesive binding machinery
Run adhesive binding machinery
Set and Run adhesive binding machinery

Set and run auto-packing, storage or palletising equipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set auto-packing, storage or palletising equipment
Run auto-packing, storage or palletising equipment
Set and run auto-packing, storage or palletising equipment

Set and run automated inserting equipment for newspapers and periodicalsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set automated inserting equipment for newspapers and periodicals
Run automated inserting equipment for newspapers and periodicals
Set and Run automated inserting equipment for newspapers and periodicals

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

Set and run case making machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set case making machinery
Run case making machinery
Set and run case making machinery

Set and run casing-in machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set casing-in machinery
Run casing-in machinery
Set and run casing-in machinery

Set and run cutting and creasing machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set cutting and creasing machinery
Run cutting and creasing machinery
Set and run cutting and creasing machinery

Set and run foil blocking machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set up foil blocking machinery
Run foil blocking machinery
Set and run foil blocking machinery

Set and run insetting-stitching-trimming machinesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set in-line insetting-stitching-trimming machinery
Run in-line insetting-stitching-trimming machinery
Set and run in-line insetting-stitching-trimming machines

Set and run laminating equipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set laminating equipment
Run laminating equipment
Set and run laminating equipment

Set and run mail processing machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set mail processing machinery
Run mail processing machinery
Set and Run mail processing machinery

Set and run slitting and re-reeling equipment - adhesive label productionReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute

What you'll be able to do

Set slitting and re-reeling equipment
Run slitting and re-reeling equipment
Set and run slitting and re-reeling equipment in - adhesive label production

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.

Communicating and Working with Others in the Print Working EnvironmentKeep Equipment Clean and in Working Order for use in the Printing IndustryKnowledge of the Organisations Printing Processes and related informationMaintain Health and Safety within a Print Related Working EnvironmentMaterials Handling, Transportation and Storage within the Print Working EnvironmentSet and Run Folding MachinerySet and Run GuillotinesSet and Run auto punching and cutting machinery

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

The Evidence Evaluator

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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.

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Where 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.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration

City & Guilds Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Print Finishing

Clean down equipment and replace components
Collate Print
Collate Print Job Cost Information
Collect, sort and distribute materials internally
Contribute to maintaining equipment in working order
Contribution to maintaining equipment in working order
Control Casing
Control Folding Machinery

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

Future FluencyAll ten future skillsSee how every unit is contextualised by the tenExplore →

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.

Clean down equipment and replace componentsCollate PrintCollate Print Job Cost InformationCollect, sort and distribute materials internallyContribute to maintaining equipment in working orderContribution to maintaining equipment in working orderControl CasingControl Folding MachineryControl adhesive binding machineryControl autoControl automated inserting processes for newspaper and periodicals print finishingControl carton enhancing machineryControl case making machineryControl cutting and creasing machineryControl foil blocking machineryControl in Booklet Making MachineryControl in-line Insetting-Stitching-Trimming MachinesCut page edges and binding materials by guillotine+15 more

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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.

Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.

Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.

Communicating and Working with Others in the Print Working EnvironmentLevel 2

Applied to your own work

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

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Built for City & Guilds Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Print Finishing

25 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
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
Materials Handling, Transportation and Storage within the Print Working Environment
Set and Run Folding Machinery

and 19 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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, free

No 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.