The content of this course focuses on familiarising students with the industry terminology principles and processes involved in digital pre-press, direct to press and print production, while developing the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to produce artwork and print specifications to a specified industry standard across a range of media, methods and applications.

The content includes digital pre-press techniques, direct to press techniques, paper technology and other print substrates; ink technology, printing technology; printing problems and troubleshooting; print grids, formatting and imposition; process colours and pantone colours, print resolution and dot gain; principles of planning, preparation and execution of finished artwork for print; special printing effects, writing print specifications liaison with pre-press bureaux and printers, and industry expectations and standards for quality assurance and OH&S.