Syllabus of Trade Instructor Gr II in Printing Technology

Syllabus for the Post of Trade Instructor Gr Ii in Printing Technology

1. History & development of Printing 19
2. Sheetfed Offset presses 18
3. Design fundamentals 6
4.  Colour 6
5. Image assembly 10
6. Computer – basics 4
7.  Digital imaging 11
8. Paper 7
9. Ink and press room chemicals 7
10. Finishing operations 12

Detailed Syllabus

1 i. History & development of Printing 5 Marks

1. Press development
2. Platen, Flatbed, Rotary presses
3. Offset presses
4. Offset duplicator
5. Two cylinder and Three cylinder presses
6. Multi colour presses
7. Blanket to blanket
8. Web offset presses

ii Major Printing Processes

1. Printing with master
2. Relief Printing – Nature of image and non image areas
3. Flexographic printing   3 Marks
4. Applications
5. Units of a flexo press
6. Types of flexo plates
7. Kiss impressionIntaglio Printing – ” ” 3 Marks
8. Gravure – applications
9. Advantages and disadvantages
10. Cylinder preparation methods

Screen Printing – ” ” 3 Marks

1. Advantages & limitations
2. Stencil preparation methods
3. Squeegee types
4. Screen printing inks
5. Automation in screen printing
6. Printing on cylindrical surfaces
7. Lithography – ” ”
8. Principle of lithography
9. Invention of lithography & offset

iii Printing without master 5 Marks

1. Digital printing methods
2. Inkjet
3. Laser
4. Thermography
5. Magnetography
6. Ionography
7. Applications of digital printing
8. Advantages of digital printing

i Sheetfed Offset presses 6 Marks

1. Four units of an offset press
2. Infeed unit – Function, parts
3. Registration unit – Function, parts
4. Printing unit – Function, parts
5. Three systems in printing unit
6. Cylinder system
7. Dampening system
8. Inking system
9. Delivery unit – Function, parts
10. Waterless offset
11. Multi colour sheetfed press
12. Monitoring and control system
13. Press console
14. Quality control devices
15. GATF
16. Roller and blanket problems and adjustments

ii Sheetfed offset operations 6 Marks

1. Feeding the sheets – fanning, jogging
2. Registering the press sheet – lay adjustments
3. Delivery adjustments
4. Preparing the printing unit
5. Adjusting inking unit & dampening unit
6. Attaching the plate, starting up
7. Inking the plate, press proofing
8. Attaining ink water balance

iii Web offset presses 6 Marks

1. Units – Infeed, Printing, Delivery
2. Components of web presses
3. Roll stand, dancer roller, splicer, web tensioner etc.
4. Types of web presses- B2B, CIC, Inline etc.
5. Automation on offset printing- CIP3 etc.

3 i Design fundamentals 6 Marks

1. Alphabet design
2. Font families
3. Point size
4. Principles of design
5. Design steps
6. Single colour and multicolour paste up
7. Line & tone, half tone
8. Half tone screens
9. Three areas on a continuous tone image

4 i Colour 6 Marks

1. What is light
2. Electro magnetic spectrum
3. Colour theories – Additive & Subtractive colours
4. Colour system
5. Colour gamut
6. HSV
7. Screen angles
8. Colour correction – UCR & GCR

5 i Image assembly 4 Marks

1. Stripping, flat
2. Imposition – types
3. Proofing – purpose & types of proofing

ii Platemaking 6 Marks

1. Equipment for platemaking
2. Exposure systems
3. Calibration (light source)
4. Lithographic printing plates
5. Base plate materials
6. Thickness of plates
7. Graining and its purpose
8. Types of plates – Surface, sub surface, PS, photopolymer etc.

6 i Computer – basics 4 Marks

1. Hardware, software
2. Input, output devices
3. Data storing
4. Computer network
5. Storage devices
6. Digital workflow

7 i Digital imaging 5 Marks

1. Raster & vector
2. Digital halftones
3. FM & AM screening
4. Trapping
5. File formats
6. Image input methods
7. Types of scanners
8. Digital cameras

ii Digital pre-press 6 Marks

1. Word processing software
2. Page layout software
3. Illustration and image editing software
4. Digital half tones
5. FM & AM screening
6. Trapping
7. Kerning, tracking, leading, formatting
8. CTP
9. Different types
10. Imaging systems

8 i Paper 7 Marks

1. Paper making process
2. Paper characteristics
3. Grain direction
4. Paper problems
5. Paper recycling
6. Types of paper
7. Basis weight & M weight
8. Reams
9. Paper sizes – International & Conventional sizes
10. Paper calculation

9 Ink and press room chemicals

i Ink manufacturing 5 Marks

1. Ingredients of ink
2. Properties of ink
3. Ink problems
4. Systems for specifying ink
5. Pantone Matching System

ii Chemicals used in printing 2 Marks

1. Dampening solution & pH
2. Other chemicals used in presses

10 i Finishing operations 12 Marks

1. Cutting device
2. Equipment used for binding and finishing
3. Folding operation
4. Binding
5. Classification of binding
6. Finishing methods

 

NOTE: – It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed above, questions from other topics prescribed for the educational qualification of the post may also appear in the question paper. There is no undertaking that all the topics above may be covered in the question paper