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Title
Machine fold including roll folds and slitting for print finishing
Level
4
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: check
documentation and confirm requirements for the job are
available; draw up lay sheets for portrait and landscape work
up to sixteen pages; machine fold, including roll folds and
slitting, and use auxiliary equipment.
Classification
Printing > Binding and Finishing
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Unit 340, Demonstrate knowledge of safe working practices in
the print industry, 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, Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, Resource
Management Act 1991, Privacy Act 1993 and their subsequent amendments.
2
Workplace practices refer to the documented procedures for the machine and/or
workplace.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Check documentation and confirm requirements for the job are available.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Job documentation is checked to ensure that all specifications for the process
being undertaken are complete and any discrepancies are reported in
accordance with workplace practices.
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
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1.2
Components required for the job are checked against the job documentation
and their availability confirmed.
1.3
Availability of equipment, as determined by the job documentation, is confirmed.
Outcome 2
Draw up lay sheets for portrait and landscape work up to sixteen pages.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Lay sheets are described and their effect on portrait and landscape pages is
explained.
2.2
Lay sheets are drawn to ensure that the job fits on the sheet size.
Range
work and turn, work and tumble, self backer and sheetwork up to
sixteen pages.
2.3
Bleeds, trims, folds and laps are applied to lay sheets ensuring that the job
requirements are met.
2.4
The importance of grain direction when drawing lay sheets is explained.
Outcome 3
Machine fold, including roll folds and slitting, and use auxiliary equipment.
Range
leaflets, maps, multi panel work.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Work is folded using a minimum of three plates in the first unit ensuring that
safety requirements for the machine and workplace are followed.
3.2
2 up work is folded and slit using slitters ensuring that folds are sharp and free
of creasing and marking.
3.3
Auxiliary equipment is set up and used to meet the requirements of the job
specifications.
Range
3.4
Sections are prepared for forwarding to the next production process.
Range
3.5
any two of the following as available in the workplace – preloaders, gluers, stripping devices, presses, stackers, ink-jet
numbering units, notchers, bursters.
knocked up, stacked, labelled to identify.
Jobs are packed to meet the requirements of the job specifications.
Competenz
SSB Code 101571
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
Replacement information
3655 version 7
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This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
27778.
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
16 February 1995
31 December 2015
Revision
2
20 July 1998
31 December 2015
Revision
3
20 September 1999
31 December 2015
Review
4
30 November 2000
31 December 2015
Review
5
26 January 2005
31 December 2015
Review
6
19 July 2012
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.
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