Unit 1 Task 1

Unit 1 Task 1

Attitudes	Description of attitude.	Why do employers value this attitude.
Hard working	Working at maximum capacity by completing assignments and deadlines on time.	This is a valued attribute because employers seek people who are willing to put in the maximum amount of effort needed to complete the task at hand.
Independent	Being capable enough to work on your own without aid or assistance from others.	Although many employers require their staff to be effective in a team, some others might need their staff to work on their own because it means they can spend more time training other people..
Determined	Being applied when completing the task at hand.	No determination means a serious lack in progress and effort, which will lead to the business either losing money, customers or staff.
Tolerant	Adapting to challenging situations and responding appropriately.	Tolerant employees will reduce the risk of confrontations and arguments in the workplace.
Leadership	The willingness to lead a team successfully in order to complete a given task.	This is valued because every workplace needs an employee who knows how to control a group in certain situations.
Dependable	Being reliable in every aspect, such as being punctual every day.	A reliable workforce is an effective workforce, employees need to be dependable so the people higher up in the business will be able to trust them to complete their given task exactly how they were supposed to.
Confident	Being able to complete tasks without help and being able to fit in amongst the staff comfortably.	Being confident in the workplace leads to work being completed to a much better standard.
Problem solving	The ability to assess a problem and fix it on your own.	This is valued because it means the business can become self sufficient, and not waste extra money hiring people outside of the business to fix every problem.

General attributes (for any job)

Attribute	Description of attribute	Why do employers value this attribute
Planning skills	Being able to come up with different ideas on how to complete a task.	This is valued because it shows that employees are able to overcome a task or a problem.
Organisational skills	Being able to put things in their right place and keep things in the correct order.	Because it helps employees to stay on task and keep their work in the correct order.
Time management	Completing tasks/deadlines within the allocated time limit.	This prevents workers from finishing their tasks late and becoming extremely far behind.
Verbal skills	The sharing of information between individuals by using speech.	This prevents people from misinterpreting eachother, which in effect lessens the chances of mistakes being made due to lack of communication.
Written skills	The sharing of information between individuals by using writing.	Written communication is much easier than talking face to face because of emails and letters etc.
Numeracy	The ability to understand and work with numbers.	This will be helpful to staff who's job is based around mathematics.
Creativity	The use of imagination or original ideas to create something.	Creative people within a business can suggest new and original ideas which could help the business to rise above its competitors.

Specific attributes (ICT Job related)

Attribute	Description of attribute	Why do employers value this attribute
Technical knowledge	The knowledge and abilities needed to work with computers effectively.	Less training is needed when hiring effective ICT staff, they could even train other, less knowledgeable employees.
Good working procedures	A set of steps or series of practices and steps which should ideally be carried out in one's job to ensure positive outcomes are achieved.	This shows that an employee will work by the book and not step out of line by breaking certain company rules.
Health and safety	Regulations and procedures intended to prevent accident or injury in workplaces or public environments.	This proves that employees are knowledgeable in the field of health and safety which means less injuries will occur in the workplace.
Security	Being free of danger or threat.	This creates a positive working environment because all employees will feel safe in their workplace.
Keeping up to date with technology	Having knowledge about all of the latest technology	If new technology is introduced to the business then these employees will be able to quickly adapt and train others.

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Image 2 (JPEG)  is not blurry which means that is of a good quality, while image 3 (GIF) is visibly blurry which shows that it is not of a good quality.

From examining the different file types I have came to the conclusion that the JPEG file type is the closest to the original. This is because the other file types were too blurry and were unable to show the images in a good detail, but the JPEG file on the other hand is clear resolute.

Picture 1 - Original quality, picture 2 - low quality, picture 3 - medium quality, picture 4 - highest quality.

In comparison to the original image, the quality of pictures 2 and 3 is clearly worse as it is considerably more pixelated and blurry. The images are both suitable sizes which makes them easy to send via email and other applications.

Image 2 colour depth - 2, image 3 colour depth - 16, image 3 colour depth - 256 

The colour depth of 256 is the closest possible to the original image while the other two are once again noticeably blurry. This is because their colour depths are both significantly less than the second image.

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Unit 30 D1

Printing Techniques and Developing

Laser & Vinyl Cutters: Laser cutting is a technology that uses lasers to cut materials and is typically used for industrial manufacturing, but is also recently being used by schools and small businesses. Laser cutting works by directing the output of a high laser usually through optics.

Laser cutting machines can be customised for a person's specific industrial or educational applications and they can also be easily adjusted for a wide range of materials.

They can also cut a wide rang of materials to a high degree of accuracy, even difficult or complex detail can be produced effectively.

Because laser cutting is faster than traditional, more primitive techniques, you can achieve greater output and increased productivity.

Laser cutting is a contact-free process - materials do not need to be clamped down or adjusted and the machines never expose the operator to moving parts.

Whether you are new to laser cutting or an expert, laser cutting machines are  also relatively easy to operate.

Compared to previous years, shops would've had to paint their windows and vans etc, but now laser cutting is as easy as sticking the logos onto surfaces.

A vinyl cutter is a form of computer controlled machine. Small vinyl cutters resemble regular computer printers but others tend to be much larger. The computer controls the movement of a sharp blade which is used to cut out shapes and letters from sheets of thin self-adhesive plastic (or vinyl). A symbol/label can be produced using a vinyl cutter such as a 'sticker machine'. These machines are controlled by a computer operate similarly to a printer. Essentially they cut out shapes in adhesive vinyl which can then be stuck onto almost any surface.

The cutter uses a small knife to accurately cut the outline of a picture into a sheet or piece of vinyl. The knife then moves from side to side and turns, while the vinyl is moved beneath it. The result from this process is an image cut into the material. It is then 'weeded' where the excess parts of the picture are removed.

Vehicle wrapping is a special process in which your vehicle is literally ''wrapped'' in printed graphics so that very little of its original paint colour is visible. The graphics are printed onto an adhesive vinyl film which sticks to the surface of your vehicle.

Accepted file types for laser & vinyl cutting: DXF compatible with autoCAD version 2011 or earlier, DWG compatible with AutoCAD version 2011 or earlier, CDR (CorelDRAW), AI (Adobe Illustrator), EPS (Adobe Illustrator), SVG, PDF.

3D Printing: 3D printing starts with making a virtual design of the object you want to create. This virtual design is made in  CAD file using a 3D modelling program or with the use of a 3D scanner. The scanner makes a 3D digital copy of an object and puts it into a 3D modelling program.

To prepare the digital file created in a 3D modelling program for printing, the software slices the final model into hundreds or thousands of horizontal layers. When this prepared file is uploaded in the 3D printer, it creates the object layer by layer. The 3D printer reads every slide and proceeds to create the object by blending each layer together with no sign of the layering visible, resulting in one three dimensional object.

Regardless of the 3D modelling software used, the 3D model needs to be converted to either an STL or an OBJ format, to allow the printing software to read it.

Laser Printers for Leaflets and Flyers: They work by making a laser beam scan back and forth across a drum inside the printer, building up a pattern of static electricity. This then attracts onto the page a kind of powdered ink called toner. Finally, as in a photocopier, a fuser unit bonds the toner to the paper.

Duplex printing is a feature of computer and multifunction printers that allows the automatic printing of a sheet of paper on both sides. Print devices without this capability can only print on a single side of paper, sometimes called single-sided printing or simplex printing.

Collate printing is when your printer can sort multiple copy jobs. For example, if you print two copies of a three-page document and you choose not to collate them, the pages then print in the order of 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3. You can then staple the sheets together,

Accepted file types for laser cutting: DXF compatible with autoCAD version 2011 or earlier, DWG compatible with AutoCAD version 2011 or earlier, CDR (CorelDRAW), AI (Adobe Illustrator), EPS (Adobe Illustrator), SVG, PDF.

Inkjet Printing: Instead of metal needles, they use hundreds of tiny guns to fire dots of ink at the printer instead. The characters they print are still made up of dots, but they are so small that they are not visible to the naked eye. Different types of inkjet printers fire in the ink in various.

Desktop inkjet printers are usually used in the office or at home.

P5

P5

My fellow student, Oran Doherty suggested that I change the colour of my graphic in order for it to be more vibrant and aesthetically pleasing. I then changed the colour of the background to red and added different fonts.

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P6

P6 - Copyright Laws

Copyright laws are the main issues that graphic designers have to tackle. Copyright is a legal right created by the government of a country. It grants the creator of an original piece of work exclusive rights to its use and distribution, usually for a limited time, with the intention of enabling the creator (for example, the photographer of a photograph or the author of a book) to receive compensation for their intellectual effort.

To get permission to use copyright products you need to get a licence. you can get a licence through the following mediums:

The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA) has links and contact details for a wide range of image suppliers in the UK where you can search for images using keywords. Once you've found an image you want to use, you can acquire a licence that is tailored to your needs.

The BBC: They have a fee-paying, business-to-business service where you can find images protected by copyright from the organisation's library for editorial use in digital and print media.

If you want to reproduce the work of an artist you can contact various rights holder organisations, one of which is the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS). DACS represents over 70,000 visual artists and estates in the UK and overseas through its copyright licensing service. Certain members of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA) can also license works by an artist.

If you know your rights and have the correct type of protection you will be able to prevent people people from stealing or copying:

• The names of your products or brands.
• Your inventions.
• The design or look of your products.
• Things you write, make or produce.