Skill explained

Print Media craftspersons will have a broad understanding of setting and operation of an offset sheet-fed press and other equipment to create finished, printed products. Press operators are responsible for producing all printed material at a printing operation.

Operators have to be able to mix custom ink colours, operate cutting equipment to produce a job to a customer's specifications. Quality control equipment like densitometers and photospectrometers are used to verify and adjust the print quality.

Required skills

Creativity, professionalism, time management, tidy, technically savvy, problem solver

What the Competitors do at the Competition

Offset Printing a specified number of different printed products on the sheet-fed offset presses according to the quality and technical criteria set and accepted by a customer and known as standards in the industries, for example ISO 12647-2.

Produce digitally a specified number of different products on a digital press in a specified time

Finishing the printed work by trimming, folding, and binding it with a paper cutter, folder, and simple binding machine to specified dimensions

Controlling the quality throughout the production process and carrying out required quality measurements and reporting tasks

Cleaning the equipment and the premises after the Offset Printing, digital printing, finishing and maintenance process in a specified time

Print different jobs with a print simulation program within a specified time and/or cost.