Print Finishers and Screen Printers

What the job involves

• Setting up and supervising the operation of automatic binding and finishing equipment

• Binding full, half and limp-bound books, and repairing bindings

• Folding, collating and sewing signatures by machine and hand

• Operating paper guillotines for pre-press and post-press paper cutting and trimming, and programming electronically operated units

• Operating systems to insert printed material into newspapers, magazines and envelopes

• Embellishing printed products automatically and manually

• Operating photographic and electronic reproduction devices

• Preparing stencils using computer and hand-cut methods

• Selecting, mixing and matching coloured inks and loading into screen printing presses

• Loading printed items into drying racks, and unloading and stacking dry items