NZQA Expiring unit standard
Title
3715 version 7
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Make ready and print four colour process sheet-fed offset work on a single or two colour press
4 Credits 25 Level
Purpose People credited with this unit standard are able to: make ready the single or two colour sheet-fed offset printing press for four colour process work; print four colour process sheet-fed offset work on a single or two colour press; and undertake post press tasks.
Classification
Available grade
Entry information
Printing > Printing - Sheet-Fed
Achieved
Critical health and safety prerequisites
Prerequisite: Unit 3714, Make ready and print two or more colour close register sheet-fed offset work , or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
1 All workplace practices must meet any applicable and recognised codes of practice, and documented workplace health, safety, and environmental procedures for personal, product, workplace health, safety, and environmental matters, and the obligations required under current law including the Health and Safety in Employment
Act 1992, Resource Management Act 1991, and their subsequent amendments.
2 Workplace practices refer to the documented procedures for the machine and/or workplace.
3 Jobs undertaken for this unit standard must include work for a minimum sheet size of
A3, and work must be carried out on a single or two colour sheet-fed offset press.
4 Candidates undertaking this unit standard must provide evidence of normal colour vision. Further information on PrintNZ Training’s policy for colour vision can be obtained from PrintNZ Training, PO Box 31131, Lower Hutt 5040.
Outcome 1
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
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NZQA Expiring unit standard 3715 version 7
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Make ready the single or two colour sheet-fed offset printing press for four colour process work.
Evidence requirements
1.1 Sequence order of inks is determined to meet the job requirements.
Range trapping, ink tack, absorbency and surface of substrate, dot gain effects, areas of critical register, final colours required.
1.2 Make ready is carried out for four colour process work.
1.3 Quality of tonal values and secondary colours produced meets the job requirements and customer specifications.
Outcome 2
Print four colour process sheet-fed offset work on a single or two colour press.
Evidence requirements
2.1 Four colour process work is printed to meet requirements of the job specifications.
Range may include, but is not limited to – proofs, progressives, customer standards, company standards.
2.2 Production standards are maintained throughout the print runs.
Outcome 3
Undertake post press tasks.
Evidence requirements
3.1 Quantity printed is checked against job documentation before wash up is commenced or plates are removed from cylinder.
3.2 Any discrepancies in quantity are rectified or reported in accordance with workplace practices.
3.3 Job documentation is completed in accordance with workplace practices.
Range may include, but is not limited to
– job sheets, time sheets, electronic data storage.
3.4 Printed substrate is prepared for forwarding to the next production process.
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
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New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2020 New Zealand Qualifications Aut

NZQA Expiring unit standard
Replacement information
3715 version 7
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This unit standard and unit standard 3716 have been replaced by unit standard 26320.
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
Revision
1
2
31 March 1995
20 July 1998
31 December 2019
31 December 2019
Review
Review
Rollover and
Revision
3
4
5
25 May 1999
22 October 2003
12 December 2008
31 December 2019
31 December 2019
31 December 2019
Review 6 18 June 2010 31 December 2019
Rollover 7 10 December 2015 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
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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
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New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2020 New Zealand Qualifications Aut