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Summer
2025

Apprenticeship
to become
a Packaging Printer EFZ

Packaging printers prepare printing orders, examine, process and optimise the printing data and printing machinery and systems, mix the inks and carry out all the various steps needed to prepare for printing. Packaging printers oversee the printing porcess and take the appropriate measures if there are any faults or disruptions. Packaging printers work in commercial or industrial companies, using a range of different printing technologies. The corporate structure and products vary according to the printing technology being used. Usually they work with large and complex printing systems for flexo, gravure or digital printing. They oversee the printing process, monitor quality using various measuring techniques and optimise the process where necessary. They are often required to do shift work.

Apprenticeship

  • Duration: 3 years

Practical training

Training in a printing company that makes flexible packaging, printed labels or corrugated paper, and attendance of inter-company courses.

Theoretical training

  • One day per week of vocational education at the Schule für Gestaltung Zürich (Zurich School for Design)
  • General subjects and job-related subjects

Job-related subjects

  • Safety at work/Hygiene/Protecting the environment
  • Material handling
  • Printing technologies
  • Preparation stages for printing
  • Printing inks, colour, theory, colorimetry
  • Printing (inlc. scientific bases)
  • Further processing
  • Basic principles of business management

Inter-company courses

  • Mixing inks
  • Digital printing
  • Gravure printing
  • Flexoprinting

Vocational Baccalaureate

If you perform especially well at the vocational school and the company where you are doing your apprenticeship give their consent, you can also attend the Vocational Baccalaureate School during your basic training.

Final qualification

If you pass your final apprenticeship examination: Swiss federal certificate of proficiency as a packaging printer EFZ.

What do you need to bring with you?

  • Compulsory education with mid to high-level final qualifications
  • A good understanding of technical matters
  • Good team skills
  • A strong sense of responsibility
  • The ability to think and act in an environmentally responsible way 
  • A precise and reliable way of working
  • No coulour vision deficiency

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Food
Pharma & Chemistry
Machines & Technology
Logistics
Cosmetics
etitex

Food

High-percentage customer loyalty. Refreshingly creative. Your product is a hit that meets the taste of the target group? All the more important that it is recognisable on the market:

Pharma & Chemistry

A formula for success. A contribution to safety. Labels for medical applications must meet the most demanding guidelines

Machines & Technology

Powerful high performers. Powerful in every situation Labels for construction and industry have to be able to do one thing above all: stand up to anything!

Logistics

Controls logistics. Keeps the economy moving Logistics, trade or production: machine- or electronically-readable labels provide information about product, manufacture, origin and material.

Cosmetics

It's the aesthetics that count. And that it lasts. Wetness, oil, physical stress: beauty products need aesthetically pleasing packaging that can withstand a lot.

etitex

Labels from etitex show it to everyone! We are your partner for professional printing of first-class brand labels. Find out how our labels move industry, trade and business.
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