Graphic Arts/Printing is one of the fastest growing, technologically advanced fields in the communications industry today. Davies Graphics Arts/Printing program provides students with the skills necessary to gain entry level positions in a variety of commercial printing areas, and/or post-secondary education. Davies was the first high school in Rhode Island to receive national accreditation from PrintED of America.

Students explore the multiple paths that comprise the industry to enable them to select the best career path. Design and layout, electronic imaging, image assembly, and offset press operations for the production of single and multi-color work are included in the program.

Both a Macintosh G-3 Lab and a fully equipped print shop are provided. Students learn to use equipment including: darkrooms, A B Dick and Heidelberg QM presses, screen-printing units, platemaker, color scanner, cutting, drilling, and folding equipment. Students provide many print services for the school. In a unique partnership with IKON Office Solutions, students receive training on high speed Docutech copy equipment in the Davies-IKON Training Center.

Skills Students Learn:

• Darkroom procedures
• Image assembly
• Paper and Inks
• Basic offset press operations
• Layout and design; proofreading
• Macintosh applications: Pagemaker, Quark Express
• Electronic Imaging
• Screen printing process
• Bindery/finishing techniques; laminating
• Copyright laws; shop safety
• Copy center operations (IKON)

High School Diploma

• Desktop Publishing/Page Lay-out Specialist
• Customer Service
• Offset Press Assistant

2 Year/4 Year College

• Teaching Certificate
• Layout Artist
• Website Designer