Science & Technology Opportunity: Printer Origination

Printer Origination Current Vacancies

2007-06-17:

The work of a print originator covers a range of pre-press tasks from the design and approval of artwork, images, illustrations and text up to the actual printing process. digital scanning of images for insertion into documents

retouching images and creating example proofs - preparing and checking the quality of any film or digital outputs transferring the final image from film onto printing plates using an imagesetter platemaking.

companies specialise in pre-press production for design houses or printing firms. is increasingly important as digital printing processes become more widespread .

Origination printers work on the production of a wide variety of products including newspapers, magazines, books, stationery and packaging.

opportunities for overtime and shift work.
Print originators are mainly office- or studio-based. customers.

environment. Print originators responsible for outputting films may have to wear appropriate protective clothing to handle
The printing, packaging and graphics industry is the UKs fifth largest manufacturing industry, and employs around 200,000 Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow.

Opportunities for print originators exist in specialist pre-press production companies, design houses, reprographics
houses and printers. Many companies are small to medium enterprises, so duties may span several aspects of the print process. including account management and general management.

Increasingly, traditional reprographics houses are diversifying into design, artwork, new media, website design and management (Permalink)