Print Finishers and Screen Printers

Key Tasks

• •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

Employment Projections to 2034