278. Ordinance of the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Labour on Vocational Training in the Apprenticeship Trades of prepress technology (prepress training regulations)

On the basis of § § 8 and 24 of the Vocational Training Act, BGBl. No. 142/1969, as last amended by the Federal Law BGBl. I No 79/2003, shall be ordered:

Teaching profession Druckvorstufentechnik

§ 1. (1) The teaching profession is equipped with a teaching period of three-and-a-half years.

(2) In the teaching contracts, teaching certificates, certificate of teaching qualifications and teaching letters, the teaching profession is to be described in the form corresponding to the sex of the apprentist's apprentiate (prepress technician or prepress technician).

Professional profile

§ 2. Through vocational training in the course of teaching and in the vocational school, the trained apprentice is to acquire general knowledge of prepress technology and be able to carry out the following activities professionally, independently and in a professional way. to be responsible for:

1.		Check original templates for the reproduction, the specified working materials, and set the work steps,
2.		Manufacture stroke and sound-value productions with electronic devices,
3.		Produce a set of quantities and designs,
4.		Manufacture of printing forms for offset printing with the aid of photomechanical and electronic devices,
5.		Run side and arc montages,
6.		Measurement and testing of color excerctions (reproductions), sentence products and printing forms
7.		Store and ensure the finished products for their eventual re-use,
8.		Cleaning, maintenance and maintenance of the technical equipment and carrying out simple repair work,
9.		Collect technical data and work results.

Professional image

§ 3. (1) The following job description shall be established for the training in the teaching profession of prepress technology. The skills and knowledge referred to shall be conveyed, at the latest in the teaching year referred to in each case, in such a way as to enable the apprentice to pursue qualified activities in the sense of the professional profile, which shall, in particular: Independent planning, carrying out, controlling and optimising.

Pos.	1. Year of Teacher	2. Year of Teacher	3. Year of Teacher	4. Year of Teacher
1.	Knowledge of the tasks and the organizational structure as well as the operational processes
2.	Knowledge and application of the company's facilities and the necessary tools
3.	Knowledge of the ergonomic design of the workplace
4.	Reading and applying technical documentation
5.	Knowledge and application of English technical terms
6.	Handling and maintenance of the tools, machines, equipment and systems to be used
7.	Knowledge of materials and auxiliary materials, their properties, possibilities for use and processing possibilities
8.	Knowledge of the structure, structure and organisation of the teaching staff
9.	Knowledge of the essential work processes in the production of a printed product
10.			Customer-oriented behavior in connection with technical order processing
11.	Knowledge of the project planning, taking into account the individual steps and their coordination
12.	Knowledge and application of the correction characters
13.	Knowledge of the writings and the typographical basis
14.		Job-specific use of fonts
15.			Knowledge of the product market and development trends
16.	Knowledge and application of the relevant formats and dimensions (standards)
17.	Knowledge of the professional hardware and software
18.	Assess, use, and edit digital and analog templates
19.	Perform data entry, data processing, and data output	Assess data types; digitize templates	Taking, editing, and issuing data
20.	Basic knowledge of colour gating technology	Determining the color values according to color value scales	Image cartridge, color correction in different color space models
21.	Knowledge of basic visual terms and colour theory
22.	Creating simple documents with text programs and graphics programs	Service of set, layout, character and image processing systems		Creation of single-sided and multi-sided compounding work, taking into account their further use
23.	Knowledge of photographic materials and of photochemistry
24.			Knowledge of the production and use of printing forms for printing processes
25.	Production of printing plates
26.		Determination, insertion and handling of typeface, graphics, colour and image in design and technical form
27.			Preparation of the work steps (coding, image calculation, command chains, archiving and administration of data) in compliance with business conditions
28.			Basic knowledge of business-economic relations
29.			Plan, organize and perform the detailed preparation for the production in your own workspace
30.	Basic knowledge of the foreign language set
31.	-	Assess and correct films, disks, and data
32.	Knowledge of the software for text and image processing
33.			Knowledge of the EDP and its application in the text and image processing as well as the conversion of the data and foreign data
34.		Break and assembly
35.	Knowledge and application of densitometry
36.	Fundamentals of Reproduction Technology
37.	Knowledge of printing materials	Knowledge of the relationships between paper quality and grid selection for printing (print characteristic)
38.		Production of single-and multi-coloured works in typographic layout technology
39.		Manufacture of side and sheet montages, taking into account the requirements for further processing
40.		Knowledge of the multiple use of data	Using data multiple times
41.		Knowledge of digital photography
42.	Knowledge of the merging of data into different end products (e.g. brochures, CD-Rome, screen presentations)		Merge data into different end products (e.g. brochures, CD-Roms, screen presentations)
43.	Knowledge of the essential information technologies and the operational network techniques and databases		Apply different information techniques and operational networking techniques
44.		Making corrections	Assessing and checking work results for compliance with specifications (quality management)
45.		Knowledge of the most important printing processes
46.	Planning for data organization and data archiving	Knowledge of data compression and data conversion	Take over, transfer, convert, back up, and archive data
47.	Knowledge of the content and aim of the training, as well as essential training opportunities in this area
48.	Knowledge of the relevant safety rules and standards, as well as the relevant rules for the protection of life and health
49.	The measures and regulations on the protection of the environment relevant to the teaching profession: basic knowledge of the operational measures for the sensible use of energy in the work-relevant work area; basic knowledge of the work-related work area residual substances produced and their separation, recovery and disposal of waste
50.	Knowledge of the obligations arising from the apprenticeship contract (§ § 9 and 10 of the Vocational Training Act)
51.	Basic knowledge of the labour law provisions which are subject to the law

(2) In the course of training in the professional knowledge and skills (with special attention to the requirements and requirements of the company (in order to ensure that the apprentite's personality is formed in order to provide him with the necessary skills for a specialist), he/she must be able to Key qualifications in terms of social competence (such as openness, teamwork, conflict ability), self-competence (such as self-assessment, self-confidence, self-reliance, resilience), methodological competence (such as presentation skills, rhetoric in German language, comprehensibility in the broad guidelines of the The English language) and competence for self-directed learning (such as willingness, knowledge of methods, ability to select suitable media and materials) to be conveyed.

Rejecting Audit

Outline

§ 4. (1) The final examination shall be divided into a practical and theoretical examination.

(2) The practical test shall include the items of test work and expert discussion.

(3) The theoretical examination comprises the subject-matter of subject-matter and applied mathematics.

(4) The theoretical examination shall not apply if the candidate for examination has reached the teaching objective of the last grade of the professional vocational school or the successful completion of a vocational middle or higher school which replaces the teaching period has proven.

Practical examination

Audit work

§ 5. (1) The audit has, as specified by the Examination Commission, three tasks, including measures on safety and health at work, any measures necessary to protect the environment and measures for quality control. the following areas (only two tasks for the following combinations: Z 1 and 3, Z 1 and 4, and Z 1 and 6):

1.		Design and manufacture of a multicolored (two-color) printing form,
2.		Composing text, graphics and image, where the data is provided on data media,
3.		Manufacture assembly lines by layout and printing plate copy,
4.		Create documents with text and graphics programs,
5.		Manufacture of a colour extract, taking into account a pre-determined pressure characteristic, and the production of a test pressure and its evaluation (measurement of the result),
6.		Adjustment of the tone value and retouching of a multicolor batch,
7.		Create a workflow in the prepress with work instructions for the production of a final product on the basis of an enclosed layout, as well as filling out a preparation form (order bag),
8.		Proofreading according to the binding manuscript as well as drawing the errors with correction characters after Duden.
The individual steps in the execution of the task are to be documented manually or computer-based. The examination committee may provide the examinee with relevant documents on the occasion of the task.

(2) The Examination Committee shall, on the basis of the purpose of the final examination and the requirements of the professional practice, place a task on each test item, which can normally be carried out in six hours.

(3) The examination shall be terminated after eight hours.

(4) The evaluation shall be based on the following criteria:

1.		fit accuracy,
2.		Dimensional accuracy,
3.		professional execution,
4.		visual impression of the work product,
5.		Comply with the set and assembly rules,
6.		Professional use of the machines, equipment and materials.

Expert discussion

§ 6. (1) The expert interview shall be submitted before the entire examination board.

(2) The expert discussion has to be developed from the practical activity. In this case, the practical knowledge of the test specimen can be determined using technical expressions. The examinee shall present subject-related problems and their solutions, demonstrate the technical background relevant to the contract and justify the procedure in the performance of the contract. The examination is in the form of a conversation that is as lively as possible, with a call for discussion by means of the description of situations and problems.

(3) The purpose of the topic is to correspond to the purpose of the final examination and to the requirements of the professional practice of the test specimen. In this case material samples, tools, demonstration objects or display boards are to be used. Questions on relevant safety regulations, protection measures and accident prevention should be included.

(4) The expert discussion shall take at least 15 minutes for each test item. It's after 20 minutes to finish. An extension of not more than ten minutes shall be carried out on a case-by-case basis if the examination board is not otherwise able to assess the performance of the test specimen without a doubt.

Theoretical examination

General provisions

§ 7. (1) The theoretical examination shall be carried out in writing. It can be carried out jointly for a larger number of test specimens, if this is possible without impairment of the test sequence. The theoretical examination can also be carried out in a computerised form, although all the essential steps for the examination board must be comprehensible.

(2) The theoretical test shall in principle be held prior to the practical examination.

(3) The tasks shall be in accordance with the scope and level of the purpose of the final examination and the requirements of the professional practice. They are to be explained separately to the examinees on the occasion of the task.

(4) The written work of the test specimen shall be marked accordingly.

Specialist

§ 8. (1) The examination shall include the answer to one task in each of the following areas:

1.		Printing form,
2.		the printing process,
3.		typography,
4.		Assembly,
5.		colour preparation, correction and retouching,
6.		image processing,
7.		Fundamentals of the EDP in terms of image processing and word processing.

(2) The test can also be checked in programmed form with questionnaires. In this case, eight tasks are to be carried out in each area.

(3) The tasks shall be carried out in such a way that they can normally be carried out in 90 minutes.

(4) The test shall be terminated after 120 minutes.

Applied mathematics

§ 9. (1) The examination shall include the reply to one task in the following areas:

1.		Calculation of length, area, volume and mass,
2.		the calculation of the material costs and the calculation of the registers,
3.		Colour and paper area calculation,
4.		Calculation of benefits, calculation of paper consumption, calculation of the grant and the calculation of the allocation arc.

(2) Use of calculation instructions, tables and guidelines is permitted.

(3) The tasks shall be carried out in such a way that they can normally be carried out in 60 minutes.

(4) The test shall be terminated after 80 minutes.

Repeat Review

§ 10. (1) The final examination of the Lehrabate can be repeated.

(2) If up to two items have been rated "Not sufficiently", the repeat examination shall be limited to the items rated "Not enough".

(3) If more than two items have been rated "Not enough", the entire test shall be repeated.

Restricted Additional Check

§ 11. After successfully completed examination of the teaching profession in the media specialist media design or in the teaching profession of media specialist media technology, an additional examination in the teaching profession, which is restricted in comparison to § 27 (2) of the Vocational Training Act Prepress technology is stored. This extends to the subject-matter discussion. § 6 shall apply mutatily for this additional examination.

In-force pedals

§ 12. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 2005.

Final provisions

§ 13. (1) The training regulations for the teaching profession of prepress engineering, BGBl. No 1088/1994, as amended by the BGBl Regulation. II No 177/2005, without prejudice to paragraph 3, with the expiry of 30 June 2005.

(2) The Examination Regulations for the Apprenticeship Training Occupation of the German Federal Law Office, BGBl. No 1088/1994, as amended by the BGBl Regulation. II No 177/2005, without prejudice to paragraph 3, with the expiry of 30 June 2005.

(3) Apprentices who are trained in the teaching profession on 30 June 2005 can continue to be trained in accordance with the training regulations referred to in paragraph 1 until the end of the agreed apprenticeship period and can continue until one year after Follow the course of the agreed apprenticeship period for the examination of the final examination according to the examination regulations referred to in paragraph 2 above.

(4) The teaching periods completed in the teaching profession of prepress technicians in accordance with the training regulations referred to in paragraph 1 shall be taken into account in full on the apprenticeship period in the teaching profession of prepress technology.

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