City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 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 3
- Total credits31
- Guided learning122 hours
- Units in this qualification27
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.
Contribute to Improving the Effectiveness of the Print OrganisationReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Obtain and understand the work schedule
- Ensure that the correct quantities of products and materials and human resources are used.
- Minimise wastage of materials
- Know why it is important to contribute to improving the effectiveness of the organisation
- Know what information to share with colleagues on your job role and why this is important.
- Share information with colleagues.
- Identify and pass on improvements to work activities
- Know how and why to identify opportunities and needs for self development and how to manage this informa
Maintain Print Equipment in Working OrderReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain equipment in working order
- Maintain equipment in working order
- Identify, correct and record machine faults
- Implement a programme of lubrication and maintenance
Manage Adhesive Binding MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready adhesive binding machine
- Manage output from adhesive binding machinery
- Manage adhesive binding machinery
- Monitor the quality of product from the adhesive binding machines
- Monitor the quality of output from the adhesive binding machines
Manage Auto-Fed Sewing MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready auto-fed sewing machinery
- Manage output from auto-fed sewing machinery
- Manage auto-fed sewing machinery
- Monitor the quality of output from auto-fed sewing machinery
- Monitor the quality of product from auto-fed sewing machinery
Manage Automated Inserting Equipment for Newspapers and PeriodicalsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready automated inserting equipment for newspapers and periodicals
- Manage output from automated inserting equipment for newspapers and periodicals
- Manage automated inserting equipment for newspapers and periodicals
- Monitor the quality of output from automated inserting equipment for newspapers and periodicals
- Monitor the quality of output from automated inserting equipment for newspapers and periodicals
Manage Carton Enhancing MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready Carton Enhancing machinery
- Manage output from carton enhancing machinery
- Manage Carton Enhancing machinery
- Monitor the quality of output from carton enhancing machines
- Monitor the quality of product from carton enhancing machinery
Manage Case Making MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready case making machinery
- Manage output from case making machinery
- Manage case making machinery
- Monitor the quality of output from casing in machinery
- Monitor the quality of product from casing in machinery
Manage Casing-in MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready casing-in machinery
- Manage casing-in machinery
- Manage casing-in machinery
- Monitor the quality of output from casing in machinery
- Monitor the quality of product from the casing in machinery
Manage Cutting and Creasing MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready cutting and creasing machinery for production
- Manage output from cutting and creasing machines
- Manage cutting and creasing machines
- Monitor the quality of output from cutting and creasing machines
Manage Foil Blocking MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready the foil blocking machinery
- Manage output from foil blocking machinery
- Manage foil blocking machinery
- Monitor the quality of output from Foil Blocking Machinery
- Monitor the quality of printed product from Foil Blocking Machinery
Manage Folding MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready the Folding machinery
- Manage output from the Folding machinery
- Manage the Folding machinery
- Monitor the quality of output from the Folding machinery
- Monitor the quality of printed product from the Folding machinery
Manage GuillotinesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set/programme and run guillotines
- Manage output and quality from guillotine
- Manage output from guillotines
- Monitor the quality of output from the guillotine
- Monitor quality of guillotine cutting
- Change guillotine blades and ancillary items
Manage Insetting-Stitching-Trimming MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready insetting-stitching-trimming machinery
- Manage output from insetting-stitching-trimming machinery
- Manage insetting-stitching-trimming machines
- Monitor the quality of output from insetting, stitching, trimming machines
- Monitor the quality of output from insetting, stitching, trimming machines machinery
Manage Mail Processing MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready mail processing machinery
- Manage output from mail processing machinery
- Manage mail processing machinery
- Monitor the quality of output from mail processing machinery
- Monitor the quality of output from mail processing machinery
Manage Materials Handling for Newspaper and Periodicals Print FinishingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan materials handling for finishing operations
- Monitor the movement of materials for finishing operations
- Control materials handling for newspaper and periodicals print finishing
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.
Plan work to meet production requirementsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret production requirements
- Plan production tasks to meet customer requirements
- Plan work to meet production requirements
Promote and Maintain Health and Safety in a Print Related Working EnvironmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know which acts, regulations and guidelines apply to the print related working environment.
- Monitor and implement changes in health and safety acts, regulations and guidelines.
- Carry out a formal assessment of hazards and risks in the print related working environment and the types of risk or hazards that exist
- Identify hazards and assess risks in the print related working environment.
- Promote safe working practices
- Promote safe working practices
- Adopt a safe method of work.
- Ensure there is no unauthorised
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 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 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 in line automated stitch and trim equipment for newspaper and periodical productionReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set stitching-trimming machinery
- Run stitching-trimming machinery
- Set and run 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 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
Understanding the Print IndustryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know the Printing Processes used within the Print Industry
- Understand the factors that influence the choice of Printing Process
- Know the types of equipment used within the Print Industry
- Recognise and understand the need for confidentiality within the Print Industry
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 3 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.
- Carrying out preventative planned maintenance on mechanical equipment
- Check and archive finished print job records
- 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
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 3 NVQ Certificate in Print Finishing
27 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Contribute to Improving the Effectiveness of the Print Organisation
- Maintain Print Equipment in Working Order
- Manage Adhesive Binding Machinery
- Manage Auto-Fed Sewing Machinery
- Manage Automated Inserting Equipment for Newspapers and Periodicals
- Manage Carton Enhancing Machinery
and 21 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.