Printing Machinist (392311)

Tasks & Responsibilities

• 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