GQA Qualifications Limited · RQF Level 3
GQA Level 3 Certificate In Understanding the Print working environment
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits19
- Guided learning89 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
This qualification covers the knowledge and understanding of the print working environment. It is intended for those working in, or intending to work in, the manufacturing technologies sector, specifically within print.
These are the units GQA Qualifications Limited 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.
Employment Rights and Responsibilities in the Processing and Manufacturing IndustriesReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know what is included in the Induction Process.
- Know the basic concepts of Employment Law.
- Know the basic principles of how safety, health and environmental legislation applies to their industry.
- Know the purpose of the Industry, it’s processes and key stakeholders.
- Know how their job role fits within the organisation.
- Know how discrimination and harassment can affect the workplace.
Knowledge of Print AdministrationReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the Departments/Job roles within the Company and their area of responsibility.
- Understand the role of an Administrator within a print administration environment.
- Understand the systems used for Administration purposes within a print administration environment.
- Understand the legal issues that govern working practices in Print Administration.
- Understand the communication and IT systems and procedures used within their area of responsibility.
- Know why good working relationships with colleagues are important.
- Know how barriers to good working relationships with colleagues can be overcome.
- Understand the importance of an organised work area in print administration.
Understanding Digital ArtworkReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the hardware and software available to create digital artwork.
- Know the attributes of digital fonts and type face.
- Know the applications of digital fonts and type face.
- Interpret the design specifications for digital artwork.
- Understand the use of digital images in digital artwork.
- Format artwork for print.
- Understand the importance of obtaining authorisation and agreement for work on digital artwork.
- Know the main issues connected with Colour in Digital Printing.
- Understand the terminology used in Digital Artwork.
Understanding Digital PrintingReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain digital printing machines in working order
- Manage digital colour printing machines
- Monitor the quality of output from the digital printing machines
- Control the use of variable data with digital printing machines
- Understand the terminology used in digital printing
- Know the main issues connected with colour in digital printing
- Ensure job instructions and handovers to colleagues are completed to minimise problems
Understanding Working Practices in the Print Working EnvironmentReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
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 departments and job roles within the company and their own area of responsibility
- Know the products produced by the company
- Know the types of equipment used within the organisation for print related work
- Know the importance of delivering customer requirements
- Know why good working relationships with colleagues are important and how barriers to this can be overcome
- Understand the need for confidentiality within the print industry
Understanding how to contribute to improving the effectiveness of the Print CompanyReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know why it is important to contribute to improving the effectiveness of the Company.
- Obtain and understand the work schedule.
- Ensure that the required quantities of products and materials are used.
- Ensure that the required human resources are used.
- Minimise wastage of materials.
- Identify and pass on improvements to work activities.
- Know how and why to identify opportunities and needs for personal development.
- Manage personal development information.
- Identify the current and required skills of colleagues.
- Identify the current and required knowledge of colleagues.
- Identify the current and required performance of colleagues.
Understanding how to manage Print Finishing MachinesReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Manage print finishing machines
- Maintain equipment in working order
- Identify, correct and record machine faults
- Monitor the quality of output from print finishing machines
- Understand substrates and how they interact in relation to paper and board
- Ensure job instructions and handovers to colleagues are completed to minimise problems
- Ensure company procedures are followed for communicating production information
Understanding how to manage Print MachinesReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Manage print production machines
- Maintain equipment in working order
- Identify, correct and record machine faults
- Monitor the quality of output from print production machines
- Understand the differences between “in line” and “off line” processes
- Understand the inks and ink drying equipment used in the print industry
- Know the substrates commonly used for printed products
- Ensure job instructions and handovers to colleagues are completed to minimise problems
- Ensure company procedures are followed for communicating production information
Understanding how to promote and monitor Health and Safety in the Print Administration working environmentReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the health and safety acts, regulations and guidelines that apply to the Print Administration working environment.
- Obtain information and keep aware of changes in health and safety acts, regulations and guidelines that apply to the Print Administration working environment.
- Implement and monitor changes in Health and Safety practices of others to comply with legislation, regulations and organisational guidelines.
- Carry out a formal assessment of hazards and risks in the Print Administration working environment.
- Adopt and promote safe working practices in the Print Administration working environment.
- Understand how to minimise risks when entering the Print Production area.
- Know what to do in the event of accidents and emergencies in the Print Administration working environment.
- Investigate accidents to identify the cause.
- Understand why it is important to investigate accidents to identify the cause.
Understanding how to promote and monitor Health and Safety in the Print working environmentReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know which acts, regulations and guidelines apply to the print working environment and where this information can be obtained
- Obtain information and keep aware of changes in health and safety acts, regulations and guidelines that apply to the print working environment
- Promote and monitor company health and safety policies and guidelines
- Know the causes of health risks in printing
- Implement and monitor changes in health and safety practices of others to comply with legislation, regulations and organisational guidelines
- Carry out a formal assessment of hazards and risks in the print related working environment
- Understand how to adopt and monitor safe working practices
- Know what to do in the event of accidents, emergencies and health and safety related incidents
- Investigate accidents to identify the cause and why this is important
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.
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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
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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.
- Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in your area of responsibility
- Build and sustain collaborative relationships with other organisations
- Build your organisation's understanding of its market and customers
- Comply with company environmental procedures
- Control Digital Colour Printing Machines
- Control Folding Machinery
- Control In-line Folding Equipment
- Control Multiple-Station Screen 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
Learners will gain foundational knowledge of employment rights and responsibilities within processing and manufacturing industries. The unit covers the induction process, basic employment law, health and safety legislation, and the role of the industry and individual job functions.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for GQA Level 3 Certificate In Understanding the Print working environment
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited.
- Employment Rights and Responsibilities in the Processing and Manufacturing Industries
- Knowledge of Print Administration
- Understanding Digital Artwork
- Understanding Digital Printing
- Understanding Working Practices in the Print Working Environment
- Understanding how to contribute to improving the effectiveness of the Print Company
and 4 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.