IBSA - Innovation & Business Skills Australia

Key Industry Sector - Printing

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• Overview of the Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package (ICP05)
• FAQs about the Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package (ICP05)
• Purchase the Printing & Graphic Arts Training Package (ICP05)
• Printing and Graphic Arts Career Fact Sheets
• FAQs about Training Packages in general

Rapidly changing technology is creating huge change throughout the printing and graphic arts industry. The Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package caters for new and emerging technologies and addresses current and future skill needs.

Imagine trying to run a commercial business without the printing and graphic arts industries. Good luck marketing or selling your wares without office signage, point of sale material, merchandising, sales catalogues, newspaper or magazine advertisements, product packaging or even a corporate logo.

Rapidly changing technology is creating huge change throughout the printing and graphic arts industry. Demand for some traditional occupations is on the decline while job opportunities in areas like digital production are expanding exponentially

The Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package (ICP05) details 34 qualifications that are recognised nationally by industry and training regulators. Qualifications range from Certificate II to Advanced Diploma in general and specialist areas including

• Printing and graphic arts;
• Graphic media;
• Printing;
• Converting, binding and finishing;
• Sacks and bags;
• Mail house;
• Cartons and corrugating;
• Ink manufacture; and
• Management/sales.

What do all these terms actually mean? Printing and graphic arts encompasses a wide range of functions from the creation of images and layouts (design) to the preparation of these for printing (pre-press), reproduction by a number of processes (press or printing), and the assembly of final products (post press or finishing). In addition, the industry supports a large number of related industries - the manufacturing of products like ink, for example.

See the links below for more information or contact IBSA for further detail and advice on the Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package.

Printing Sector Advisory Committee

Sector Advisory Committees are a pivotal component of IBSA's overarching Stakeholder Engagement strategy, which also includes National Project Reference Groups (NPRG). They provide an ideal forum for contemporary industry input and dialogue on industry matters as a means of informing the Board's decisions in important labour market and training areas.

Click here to view the membership of the Printing Sector Advisory Committee