// Unit group · 7322

Printers

Printers set up and operate digital, letterpress, lithographic, flexographic, gravure, newspaper and other printing presses.

7 Craft and Related Trades Workers / 73 Handicraft and Printing Workers / 732 Printing Trades Workers / All level 4

// Working conditions

Air and dustChemicalsMachineryNoise

// Hand tools

No hand tools in this set.

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 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.

Included occupations

Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Block printer
- Digital press operator
- Feeder operator (printing)
- Flexographic press operator
- Gravure press operator
- Large sheet-fed press operator
- Screen printer
- Screen printing press operator
- Small press operator
- Textile printer
- Web press operator

Indexed job titles 39