Future Print is offering a government subsidised, 48-hour training course in NSW to upskill printers, with a focus on digital. Future Print explains that the Digital Upskill Course will be delivered using a ‘blended’ learning model of online, on the job, and classroom learning.

Dov Hirst, project manager of the Digital Print Upskill  course says, “The course is due to start in mid-February so any businesses interested in sending staff to this course need to register interest asap, with myself or Future Print project advisor David Galbraith.”

All printers get a discount, with the $1,800 course costing businesses of less than 100 employees $594, those with 100-199 employees being charged $900, and the big 200+ employee companies $1,188. To qualify, printers need to have a minimum Certificate 3 qualification, and complete a Future Print Business Review and Workforce Development Plan.

Dov notes that, “The Digital Print Upskill is available in NSW, Victoria and South Australia WA and Tasmania.”

Future Print says that the programme was developed in consultation with businesses, as companies see an increasing need for their offset trained workers to have the ability to operate in a digital environment.

Future Print also says that tradespeople who are required to use new digital machines in their workplaces will benefit from the additional skills, such as the ability to fix basic file issues without disruption to production schedules. Alongside this, the course aims to aid productivity through a better understanding of digital equipment.

For workers displaced by industry disruption, Future Print says that the course will broaden their skill base and employability.

Pending consultation with participants and companies, the course will be run as evening blocks of 5:30pm-8:30pm, or six full day sessions.

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