Course Curriculum & Career Overview
Certification Camera Operation and Plate Making (CCOPM) - The chances of qualified Camera, Platemaking and Pre-Press workers finding employment are considered to be fair in the local area. This unit group includes prepress technicians who operate various computer controlled systems to perform prepress activities and workers who operate graphic arts cameras and scanners, assemble film and negatives and prepare, engrave and etch printing plates or cylinders for various types of printing presses. They are employed in firms that specialize in colour graphics or platemaking and cylinder preparation, commercial publishing and printing companies, newspapers, magazines, and in various establishments in the public and private sectors that have in-house printing departments.