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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine job requirements
   • Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
   • Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
   • Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
   • Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
2. Prepare to prepare stencils and screens
   • Analyse design specifications and confirm stencil requirements with appropriate personnel
   • Set up workstation, tools and equipment according to specifications and workplace procedures
   • Identify desired effects of screen printing and select appropriate conversion technique to achieve required design outcome
   • Prepare and label layouts and select media to prepare stencils
   • Complete stencils and check against design
3. Prepare screens
   • Select screen types and mesh for appropriate substrates
   • Prepare screens for stencil process and check against quality standards
   • Expose stencil masters according to industry specifications
   • Develop screen images, dry and finish
   • Apply screen preparation according to workplace procedures
4. Test screens and stencil quality
   • Print strike off and check against design specifications to ensure quality standards are met
   • Identify screen and stencil faults and determine causes
   • Apply modifications to screens, as required, using appropriate techniques, processes or materials
   • Complete screens and prepare for production processes
   • Examine outcomes and check against specifications with appropriate personnel

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Workplace procedures include one or more of the following:	requirements prescribed by legislation, awards, agreements and conditions of employment SOPs work instructions PPE oral, written and visual communication quality practices, including responsibility for maintenance of own work quality and contribution to quality improvement of team or section output housekeeping tasks related to environmental protection, waste disposal, pollution control and recycling WHS practices
Appropriate personnel include one or more of the following:	trainers colleagues mentors designers members of the design team
Conversion techniques include one or more of the following:	basic stencils hand cut and hand drawn stencils photosensitive stencils autographic digitally generated stencils multi-coloured separations
Finish includes one or more of the following:	touch up and tape, as required wash image clean and dry check for pinholes clean wash out of image
Tools and equipment include one or more of the following:	rulers and tape measures light boxes graph paper photocopier overhead projector photocopier computer equipment computer-aided design (CAD) software tables
Screen and stencil and production faults include one or more of the following:	uneven screen coating incorrectly stretched screen mesh poorly registered artwork/separations inaccurate repeat measurements incorrect exposure time used wet coating trough causing pinholes warped screen frames insufficient print paste used off printing poorly developed image poor quality colour separations stencil opacity insufficient

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include:

preparation of stencils on at least two (2) occasions for use with textile printing

reading and following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs), safe work practices

using tools and equipment associated with screen printing

analysing design specifications and interpreting production requirements

identifying and addressing faults

determining requirements of design and conversion to print

making minor adjustments to equipment

using printing techniques to test screens and stencil quality

finalising screens ready for production

evaluating own work, consulting relevant personnel and conducting quality checks

applying workplace procedures.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

safe work practices and procedures and use of personal protective equipment (PPE)

characteristics of stencil and screen types :

timber, steel and aluminium framed

butt, mitre, nailed, glued, screwed and welded

rectangle, rotary, hat and flat bed

specific design and printing practices

design types:

repeat patterns

border designs

placement prints

engineered designs

banners

printing processes and practices

different types of screens and meshes:

mesh types:

material

nylon

polyester

metal

colour:

white

yellow

red

size

mono or multi-filament

screen preparation:

checking for mesh tension

degreasing

haze removing

registration marks applied

coating

different types of medium

ruby lithe

designers opaque

ink

black wax crayon

digital prints

drafting film

pen

conversion techniques

stencil and printing techniques

screen and stencil and production faults

quality practices

workplace procedures

recording and reporting practices.

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