Course Overview
This course begins with the fundamentals of printing estimating, estimating processes and the development of production standards. Students will work with EFI Print Management Solutions software to create cost estimates. Students will also estimate digital and web press production as well as estimate methods for the small commercial printing company.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Describe the steps required to assign costs to a print project production plan.
- Create a production standard with MIS software for one pre-press, press and post-press function.
- Estimate Ink quantity and cost.
- Provide cost estimates for digital pre-press production.
- Estimate sheeted presswork and common post-press production methods.
- Construct requests for quote and produce cost estimates for basic jobs, using MIS software.
- Estimate digital press work.
- Explain the common methods used to estimate small commercial work.
- Produce advanced level estimates up to 3 parts.
- Explain the principles of budgeted hourly rates and activity based costing.
Effective as of Winter 2010
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