The essence of printing is that it is a mechanical process. By printing text or images instead of reproducing them by hand, humans eliminate the potential for copying errors and can multiply the number of copies produced almost exponentially. That’s why Gutenberg invented the printing press, and why it changed the world: the spread of ideas, the ability to literally all be on the same page, is what made modern science, literature, and philosophy what they are. In order for humans to share and develop their ideas, they needed machines to copy and distribute them.
Essential: the Human Touch in Online Printing
Yet while printing may have replaced monks with their quills, it hasn’t done away with people altogether. Quite the contrary! No printing process can happen without human involvement. The jobs have become less physical (and less hazardous) – nobody has to carve lithographs out of stones or set ink-stained sorts into type cases anymore – but even the most technologically advanced, computer-controlled printing presses still need experienced print professionals to run them.Our Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 162, for example, may be 13ft 3’ tall, 20ft wide, and almost 104ft long, but this state-of-the-art offset press couldn’t churn out its 15,000 sheets per hour without the assistance of considerably smaller helpers. That’s why PRINT101NAIJA , is also investing heavily in training the people who make the printing perfect! From graphics designers to the finishers. I.e from prepress to post press stages, especially in largeformat printing industries.
Become a real Print Professional
Online printing of the kind we offer requires experience and creativity, and we are committed to helping find and develop people with the potential to become tomorrow’s print professionals. That’s why we offer basic training for school-leavers and graduates in print and media technologies (PMT for short) on all our social platforms but we offer advance training once in a year; at the end of these apprenticeships, trainees are ready to work as print professionals – and many do just that by taking on a permanent position at most of large printing industries in Nigeria! It’s what you might call a win-win situation.
Our two courses are PMT Printing (Printing Machine Minder) and PMT Print Processing (Binding and Finishing Machine Operator). The latter allows trainees to specialise in working with printed products coming out of the press: print processing is what turns flat sheets of paper into brochures, flyers, posters, books, and many other things, too. It can involve everything from checking proofs before the main job, programming computer interfaces, to stapling sheets of paper together. The printing course, meanwhile, is for people who want to work with the actual presses: at the end of this course, trainees can configure print presses, manage print runs, and maintain the mechanical components of the presses they work with. What is more, they have the opportunity to specialise in various printing techniques, from sheet-fed or web-fed off-set through to gravure/intaglio printing and newspaper production, most importantly is our intensive largeformat PRINT training for graphics designers to production experts.
For more information on this, please feel free to contact us through contact@print101naija.com or +23475353449
Becoming a real Print Professional is not an easy thing if you fall for wrong franchise. That is why Print101naija is there for you.
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