Flexography Printing
Define flexography.
Distinguish flexographic printing from other machine printings.
Name three products of flexographic printing.
Gravure Printing
Explain the concept of gravure printing
Describe three types of gravure image carriers.
Mention three advantages of gravure printing.
List five products from gravure printing.
Relief Printing
Describe letterpress.
Identify equipment, tools and machines in the letterpress.
Define relief printing and explain the principles of relief printing.
List three types of letterpress machines.
Undertake the processes in relief printing.
Carry out imposition of 4 pages, 6 pages, 8 pages and 16 pages.
Offset Lithography Machine Printing
State the safety precautions in an offset workshop.
Enumerate the maintenance procedures for an offset machine.
Define Lithographic printing.
Describe the major systems of the Lithographic machine.
Explain techniques of offset printing.
Film-making/process Camera
Define the darkroom.
Enumerate the safety rules in the darkroom.
Describe a process camera.
State the qualities of a good artwork for reproduction.
Layout Planning
Define lithography layout planning.
Explain the process of layout planning for filmmaking.
List some materials tools and equipment for layout planning in a chronological order
Image Production
Move the squeegee once on the screen with the right amount of dye/ink.
Make reproduction of the design using the screen.
Photographic Screen Printing
Prepare a screen using silk or organdie.
Expose the screen with gelatin solution in sunlight.
Make a complete photographic stencil.
Photo Composition
state the meaning of photo composition.
Principles of photocomposition.
Safety rules in photocomposition.
Components of photocomposing machine.
Strike-on Composition
Identify the typewriting as method in letter assembly.
Type to produce a justified script.
Mechanical Composition
State the safety rules in a mechanical composition room.
Describe mechanical composition in letter assembly.
List 3 accessories each of monotype and linotype machines, mentioning their roles.
Discuss the difference between a monotype and a linotype machine.
Register the job with registration marks.
Make prints using stencil.
Origin of Printing
Students should be able to discuss the origin of the Art of screen printing.
Stencil Preparation
Produce hand made stencil with cardboards.
Produce a stencil using the block out method.
Frame Making
Make a wooden frame.
Staple or nail a mesh (silk) on the frame.
Binding Materials, Tools and Equipment
Mention some materials for book binding.
Identify some tools and equipment for print finishing.
Use these materials for simple book binding.
Book-binding and Print-finishing
Describe the stages in book binding and print finishing.
Design for Printing
Explain the concept of basic design in printing.
Identify appropriate instruments for designing.
Carry out simple designs by selecting appropriate typography, paper and colour.
Hand Composition
Identify tools/equipment and facilities for hand composition.
Explain the simple principles of hand composition.
Define terminologies of hand composition.
Describe techniques of hand composition
Differentiate between structures and parts of types.
Mention some types of alloys.
Enumerate some characters and categories of typefaces
Maintenance of Machines, Tools and Equipment in Printing Workshop
Enumerate the maintenance procedures in a Printing workshop