Printers

Duties and 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 to check print quality standards against proofs and detect malfunctions
• Producing a variety of printed products using digital, 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
• Maintaining, adjusting, repairing and cleaning machines
• Producing digital print images, and transferring and outputting images