City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City & Guilds Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Machine Printing
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits37
- Guided learning160 hours
- Units in this qualification22
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
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
Manage printing machinesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Make-ready printing machines
- Manage the output from print production machines
- Manage printing machines
- Monitor the quality of output from print production machines
- Monitor the quality of product throughout the Production process
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 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
Prepare Inks and Coatings for PrintingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Mix and match ink to meet the production specification
- Adjust viscosity and tack to suit materials or print conditions
- Store inks and coatings in accordance with Company procedures
- Prepare inks and coatings for printing
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
Prepare and Maintain Image Carriers for PrintingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare image carriers for printing
- Store image carriers
- Prepare and maintain image carriers for printing
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 Die Stamping Printing MachineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare die stamping machinery for production
- Run die stamping machinery
- Set and operate die stamping printing 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 ancillary printing machine equipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set ancillary printing machine equipment for use
- Operate the ancillary equipment
- Set and run ancillary printing machine equipment
Set and Run in-line folding equipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set and operate in-line folding equipment
- Set and operate in-line folding equipment
Set and Run numbering, bar-coding or inline data printing equipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set up numbering, bar-coding or non-impact printing equipment
- Operate and monitor the quality of numbering, bar-coding or non-impact printing during production
- Set and monitor numbering, bar-coding or inline data printing equipment
Set and Run over-printing machineryReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set up an over-printing machine for production
- Run over-printing machinery effectively
- Set and operate over-printing 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 in-line converting or enhancing equipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set in-line converting or enhancing equipment
- Run in-line converting or enhancing equipment
- Set and run in-line converting or enhancing 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
Set and use ink drying equipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Set up ink drying equipment
- Maintain the quality of output from ink drying equipment
- Use ink drying equipment
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
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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.
- Collate Print
- Collate Print Job Cost Information
- Contribute to maintaining equipment in working order
- Contribution to maintaining equipment in working order
- Control In-line Folding Equipment
- Control Multiple-Station Screen Printing Machines
- Control Numbering, Bar-coding or Inline Data Printing Equipment
- Control Output and Quality from Web Offset Printing Units on a Multi-Unit Web Offset Press
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 Diploma in Machine Printing
22 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
- Make lithographic printing plates
- Make photopolymer plates for flexographic printing
- Manage printing machines
- Output Digital Image Carriers for Print
and 16 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.