Typographer (letterpress printer, layout designer)

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

• setting up, adjusting and controlling the main mechanisms of printing presses, such as feed and delivery mechanisms, inking systems and others;
• mixing inks and solvents to standard proportions and regulating paper and ink feed during the printing process;
• monitoring, evaluating and adjusting printing presses to ensure standard print quality and to detect malfunctions and damage;
• producing various printed products using letterpress, lithographic, flexographic and gravure presses and finishing lines;
• preparing plates, blankets and gravure cylinders on offset lithographic presses;
• feeding paper into feed mechanisms;
• monitoring machine operations and print quality;
• maintaining, adjusting, repairing and cleaning printing presses;
• printing on digital printing presses.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Printer
• Printer, block machine (block printer)
• Operator, printing equipment console
• Operator, reel loader
• Keyboard operator, letterpress machine
• Machine operator, printing
• Machine operator, textile printing
• Worker-printer, silk screen
• Worker, printing press