Course Overview
This course will introduce students to the concepts and procedures for effective job planning, including creating, altering and verifying job specifications, costing considerations, purchasing raw materials and subcontracted work. The students will review how to cover costs incurred by customer changes and related billing issues as well as creating basic layouts for sheet and bookwork projects.
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:
- Create basic layouts for sheet and bookwork.
- Describe common press and layout configurations.
- Calculate the correct spoilage for press and bindery operations.
- Review scheduling and how to exploit constraints.
- Read and write RFQ's, Job Dockets, and other industry standard documents.
- Explain the different methods of imposition from flat sheets to bookwork.
- Develop strategies for establishing solid relationships with supplier companies.
- Identify and explain contractual issues, common trade practises and the basics of copyright law as it applies to the printing industry.
- Process a job from an estimate to a final job docket, set-up purchases for paper and subcontracted work through shipping and billing.
- Provide examples of job specification changes that will optimise production and add value for both the company and customer.
Effective as of Winter 2010
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