Print Finisher (392111)

Tasks & Responsibilities

• 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