NZQA Expiring unit standard
3717 version 7
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Title
Make offset plates for sheet-fed small offset printing
Level
3
Credits
5
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to make offset
plates for sheet-fed small offset printing.
Classification
Printing > Printing - Sheet-Fed
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Prerequisites: Unit 340, Demonstrate knowledge of safe
working practices in the printing and graphic pre-press
industries; and Unit 20424, Demonstrate trade knowledge for
sheet-fed printing; or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and
skills.
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Explanatory notes
None.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Make a set of offset plates for sheet-fed small offset printing.
Range
one set of at least one of the following kinds of plates required to meet job
requirements – paper, polymer based, aluminium.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Platemaking procedures for the various kinds of plates for the small offset
process are explained.
Range
1.2
paper, polymer, diffusion transfer aluminium, presensitised
aluminium.
Plates are selected to meet the requirements of the job specifications.
Range
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
run length, quality of print required, likely job repeatability.
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NZQA Expiring unit standard
3717 version 7
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1.3
Plates are made using procedures recommended by the plate manufacturer.
1.4
Finished plate sizes meet press requirements and image meets job
specifications.
Range
square, centre, preregister system, imposition.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
31 March 1995
31 December 2019
Revision
2
20 July 1998
31 December 2019
Review
3
25 May 1999
31 December 2019
Review
4
22 October 2003
31 December 2019
Rollover and
Revision
5
12 December 2008
Review
6
18 June 2010
31 December 2019
Rollover
7
10 December 2015
31 December 2019
31 December 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0005
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016