Simulated workplaceCAQA PrintWorks Media is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
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Today at PrintWorks
74 staff
  • Job Ticket Register8
  • Incident and Hazard Register8
  • Paper and Consumables Stock8
  • Machine Maintenance Log8
Simulated workplace
Commercial printing, packaging and signage

Print that performs

CAQA PrintWorks Media is a commercial printer producing marketing collateral, catalogues, books, folding cartons, labels and retail signage for brands, publishers, schools, councils and packaging buyers across south eastern Australia.

Founded 199674 staff across two sitesHead office and production plant, Dandenong South, VictoriaSignage and wide format studio, Geelong, Victoria
74
Staff
across two production sites
480
Jobs per month
average across all departments
30
Years operating
founded 1996
94%
Recycled paper waste
of plant paper waste by weight
Who we are

CAQA PrintWorks Media, commercial printing, packaging and signage

CAQA PrintWorks Media is a commercial printer producing marketing collateral, catalogues, books, folding cartons, labels and retail signage for brands, publishers, schools, councils and packaging buyers across south eastern Australia. The plant runs sheetfed offset presses, two production digital presses, a flexographic label line and a wide format department, backed by a full bindery with guillotines, folders, saddle stitchers, perfect binders and die cutting. Clients send artwork through the online portal, prepress preflights and proofs it, and the job moves through press, finishing and dispatch on a single electronic job ticket that every department can see.

The business runs from a production plant in Dandenong South with a separate signage studio in Geelong and a small sales office in Parramatta. Production works two shifts, day shift from 6:00 am to 2:30 pm and afternoon shift from 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm, with a maintenance window every Friday afternoon. Six departments cover client services and estimating, prepress and design, the press room, finishing and packaging, signage and wide format, and warehouse, dispatch and safety. A leadership team of the general manager and six department leads meets every Monday to review the week's schedule, quality issues and safety actions.

Craft

We care about registration, colour and finish on every sheet, because the client sees the detail.

Safety first

No job is so urgent that a guard is bypassed or a lockout is skipped.

Straight talk

We tell clients and each other what is achievable and by when, and we keep the promise.

Waste less

Paper, ink, plates and energy are planned, measured and recycled wherever practicable.

What we do

Services and operations

To deliver printed and packaged communication that is on time, on colour and safe to make.

Sheetfed offset printing

Long run brochures, catalogues, annual reports and point of sale printed on B1 and B2 offset presses with colour managed proofing and press side inspection.

Production digital printing

Short run and personalised printing, variable data mail packs and print on demand books produced on cut sheet digital presses with in-line finishing options.

Folding cartons and labels

Retail cartons, sleeves and pressure sensitive labels printed, die cut, folded and glued for food, beverage, cosmetics and pharmacy clients.

Binding and finishing

Guillotining, folding, saddle stitching, perfect binding, laminating, foiling and embossing delivered by a fully equipped bindery with quality checks at each handover.

Signage and wide format

Banners, posters, corflute, vehicle graphics, floor decals and retail display produced in Geelong on roll and flatbed wide format printers with cutting and mounting.

Prepress and design services

Artwork preflight, imposition, colour proofing, typesetting and small design jobs so that supplied files print correctly first time.

Clients and partners (all fictional)
Ballarat Brands CollectiveYarra Valley PublishingSouthern Cross GrocersMarlow and Reid Real EstateBayside Independent Schools NetworkKestrel CosmeticsBallarat Brands CollectiveYarra Valley PublishingSouthern Cross GrocersMarlow and Reid Real EstateBayside Independent Schools NetworkKestrel Cosmetics

Notice board All notices

  • Safety Forklift 1 is tagged out
    9 September 2026
  • Quality Colour density checks every 1,000 sheets
    8 September 2026
  • Compliance Health and safety committee meeting
    7 September 2026

Coming up Calendar

  • 14/09Leadership schedule review
    8:00 am, Boardroom, Dandenong South
  • 14/09Bindery toolbox talk: guillotine guarding
    6:15 am, Bindery, Dandenong South
  • 16/09Health and safety committee meeting
    2:30 pm, Training room, Dandenong South
  • 18/09Spring catalogue dispatch deadline
    4:00 pm, Dispatch dock
For trainers and assessors

Mapped to the Printing and Graphic Arts

Every scenario lists the current units of competency and qualifications it supports, with assessor notes and a printable evidence summary. Use it with your own assessment tools or ask CAQA for a matched kit.

Training packageICP release 4.1
Qualifications listed6 of 6 current
Units mapped34
Documents15