Digital Printing Technician in Burnaby

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Assemble and position pieces of film to produce flats or composite negatives
• Convert graphic art and photographs into film for assembly and exposure onto printing plates or cylinders
• Etch or engrave cylinders using hand tools, etching machines, photogravure or laser processes to produce cylinders for gravure presses
• Expose and lay down carbon tissue
• Grind and polish press cylinders
• Operate computerized equipment to prepare film, laser or dylux proofs for quality control purposes or for customers’ review
• Make colour separations and corrections from colour copy or transparencies
• Operate various computer-controlled studio systems to perform colour separation, retouching and editing that allow changes to be made to a colour negative for printing purposes
• Plan page layouts and electronically alter shape, size and positions of illustrations and text