Printers

Key Tasks

• •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

Employment Projections to 2034