1st shift *
Operate plate making equipment to correctly produce lithographic and/or flexographic plates from digital files.
Responsibilities:
- Impose images and operate plate making, bending/tabbing, and sheering, equipment to prepare plates for press
- Review images produced on plate for defects or errors
- Maintain production documentation
- Responsible for physical creation of flexographic and/or lithographic plates
- May replenish materials necessary in automatic plate processors and perform routine light maintenance on equipment
- May maintain inventory for plate making materials
- Review electronic files that are received from clients and check them for thoroughness and completeness in advance of the plate making process
- Using electronic page layout software (desktop publishing software) to manipulate the format of the print job to the dimensions of the paper
- Determine page layout, accounting for folds, trims, bleeds and gripper, and add crop marks and color bars as necessary
- Identify missing or problematic components and communicate them to the CSR, customer and production personnel
- May prepare color proofs for customer review
- Perform quality checks on finished plates before releasing to manufacturing
- Perform basic troubleshooting and maintenance on platemaking equipment
- Other duties as assigned