Printers
NKPD code: 7322
Description
Printers set up and operate digital, hand, lithographic, flexographic, letterpress, newspaper and other printing presses. Printers perform the following main tasks: • 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