Printing and media technology department

Programs

Printing Production Technician

Printing Equipment Technician

Printed Work Design Technician

Printing Production Technician

QUALIFICATION Printing Production Technician
EDUCATION TO BE ACQUIRED Secondary professional education (Level 4 of the Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF)
PREVIOUS EDUCATION: Basic Education (after 9th grade)
DURATION OF STUDIES: 4 years

AFTER OBTAINING THE QUALIFICATION
The printing production technician performs pre-printing preparation processes, printing, and post-printing processing. They can work in printing houses, advertising agencies, design centers, working with clients, and in production ensuring the manufacture of printed materials. They can also be self-employed or individual merchants.

PROGRAM CONTENT
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY MODULES /COURSE SUBJECTS (in the basic part)

Technological Flow in a Printing Production Company
Printing Materials
Preparation for the Printing Production Process
Planning of the Printing Production Process
Technical Layout and Imposition Preparation for Pre-press Process
Initiation of the Printing Production Process
Ensuring, Controlling, and Accounting for the Printing Production Process

GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION SUBJECTS (basic course)
Mathematics I
Latvian Language I and Literature I
Foreign Language I (B2)
Sports

ADVANCED (ELECTIVE) SUBJECTS / COURSES
Foreign Language II (C1)
Social Sciences II
Design and Technologies II

OTHER SUBJECTS
National Defense Studies

OPPORTUNITIES
Practical Training / Internship / Work-based Learning / Work

Printing Equipment Technician

QUALIFICATION Printing Equipment Technician
EDUCATION TO BE ACQUIRED Secondary professional education (Level 4 of the Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF)
PREVIOUS EDUCATION Basic Education (after 9th grade)
DURATION OF STUDIES 4 years

AFTER OBTAINING THE QUALIFICATION
The printing equipment technician works with pre-press, press, and post-press technological equipment and machinery, prepares and checks materials and resources according to the technological process, manufactures printed products, and controls their quality during the technological process, adhering to the technological card requirements of the work being performed. They can work in companies that produce printed works and can be self-employed or individual merchants.

PROGRAM CONTENT
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY MODULES /COURSE SUBJECTS (in the basic part)

Technological flow in a printing company
Printing materials
Assessing the relevance of production resources
Preparation of equipment, materials for work, production of a sample copy of the printed work
Printing production, quality control and accounting
Maintenance of equipment, workplaces and areas in working order

GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION SUBJECTS (basic course)
Mathematics I
Latvian Language I and Literature I
Foreign Language I (B2)
Sports

ADVANCED (ELECTIVE) SUBJECTS / COURSES
Foreign Language II (C1)
Social Sciences II
Design and Technologies II

OTHER SUBJECTS
National Defense Studies

OPPORTUNITIES
Practical Training / Internship / Work-based Learning / Work

Printed Work Design Technician

QUALIFICATION Printed Work Design Technician
EDUCATION TO BE ACQUIRED Secondary professional education (Level 4 of the Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF)
PREVIOUS EDUCATION Basic Education (after 9th grade)
DURATION OF STUDIES 4 years

AFTER OBTAINING THE QUALIFICATION
The printed work design technician performs the layout of printed works: evaluating the feasibility of making the layout, preparing the layout for printing and processing, checking the compliance of submitted printed work layout files with production requirements, making layout spreads and proofs using publishing, text creation and editing, image creation and processing, layout, and file transfer software. They can work in printing houses, advertising agencies, design centers, and publishers.

PROGRAM CONTENT
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY MODULES /COURSE SUBJECTS (in the basic part)