Printers

What the job involves

• Setting, adjusting and monitoring substrate-feed mechanisms, delivery mechanisms, inking systems and other printing machine functions

• Mixing ink and solvents to standard, and regulating paper and ink supply during print runs

• Monitoring, evaluating and determining press operations manually and by computer to check print quality standards against proofs and detect malfunctions

• Producing a variety of printed products using relief, lithographic, flexographic and gravure printing presses, and in-line finishing systems

• Preparing plates, blankets and impression cylinders on small offset lithographic printing presses

• Loading paper into feeding mechanisms

• Monitoring machine operations and quality of printing

• Undertaking maintenance, adjustment, repair and cleaning of machines

• Producing and managing digital print images, and transferring and outputting images

• May set up and operate paper and bookbinding guillotines