Coding
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to understand Coding
Legal Aspects of the Printing Industry
Mention trade houses in the printing industry.
Explain the roles of trade unions, employers association professional bodies and examination bodies in printing industry.
Plate Making
Describe plate making processes and explaining the functions of each chemical.
State equipment for plate exposure.
Mention safety precautions in plate making room.
Enumerate steps for plate exposure.
Describe methods of correcting on plate.
Describe how plates are preserved.
Film Making
Prepare for film exposure.
Identify different films by their characteristics.
Develop a black and white film or line negative film.
Image Production
Make prints from the screen.
Make reproduction of the design using the same screen.
Photographic Screen Making
Explain the photographic screen making process.
State the use of Kodalith translucent printing paper.
Make a screen from a photographic negative
Paper and Ware House Practice
Take inventory of materials in the warehouse.
Identify various types of printing papers, covers, and boards by their sizes, substance, colour and grammage.
Set out and interpret specifications in the work ticket.
Write the sequence of operation for a given job.
Identify the different types of inks in the ware house.
Loose Sheet Binding
Describe loose sheet binding.
Outline the binding operations.
Carry out loose sheet binding.
Edition Book Binding
Explain edition binding
list edition binding materials and their usage.
Explain common technical terms in print finishing.
Distinguish between edition binding and other types of book binding.
Photo Composition
Outline typesetting procedures and display their outputs.
Discuss the advantages of photo-composition
Perfect Binding
Recognize perfect binding.
Differentiate between perfect binding and other types of binding.
Enumerate the advantages of perfect binding.
Illustrate perfect binding.
Pamphlet Binding
Explain pamphlet binding.
Describe the stages/ processes of pamphlet binding.
Carry out pamphlet binding procedures.
Types of Binding
State the importance of book binding.
mention types of book binding.
explain print finishing.
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.