Profession reprographics technician

Reprographics technicians are responsible for the full or partial process of reproduction of graphical documents through mechanical-driven or digital means, such as photography, scanning or digital printing. These activities are commonly performed for purposes of maintaining archives or other structured catalogues.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Binding technologies

  The methods to fix paper materials together and enclose them in a cover such as case binding, sewing, adhesive binding, comb binding, and spiral binding.

• Printing materials

  The materials, such as paper, film, metal foils, and glass, on which texts or designs can be transferred by applying ink through direct pressure or with intermediate rollers.

• Reprography

  The process of reproducing, reprinting, or copying graphic material especially by mechanical or electronic means such as photography or xerography.

• Quality standards

  The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.

Skills

• Produce scanned images

  Produce scanned images that satisfy different categories and are free of potential defects.

• Reproduce documents

  Reproduce documents such as reports, posters, booklets, brochures, and catalogues for a range of audiences.

• Operate digital printers

  Handle inkjet and laser printers, allowing the operator to print documents in a single 'pass'. Download or print the digital files to the digital printing machine using the correct machine and print download settings so that the correct fonts and substrates are used and the output meets the specifications and required quality standards.

• Set colour profiles

  Maintain consistent colour output in digital colour and inkjet printers by running calibration routines and making sure that the colour profiles for the printers are still accurate.

• Supply machine

  Ensure the machine is fed the necessary and adequate materials and control the placement or automatic feed and retrieval of work pieces in the machines or machine tools on the production line.

• Scan photos

  Scan images into computers for editing, storage, and electronic transmission.

• Handle scanning material safely

  Load and handle the material to be scanned safely and make sure that the scanning equipment is clean.

• Operate printing machinery

  Operate machinery for various types of printed documents, adjusting the font, paper size, and weight. This allows ascenders and descenders to be correctly placed.

• Use microsoft office

  Possess the ability to work with the standard programs contained in Microsoft Office at a capable level. Create a document and do basic formatting, insert page breaks, create headers or footers, and insert graphics, create automatically generated tables of contents and merge form letters from a database of addresses (usually in Excel). Create auto-calculating spreadsheets, create images, and sort and filter data tables.

• Follow safety precautions in printing

  Apply safety and health principles, policies and institutional regulations of working in printing production. Protect oneself and others against such hazards as chemicals used in printing, invasive allergens, heat, and disease causing agents.

• Operate scanner

  Set up and operate scanner equipment and its hard- and software.

• Digitise documents

  Load analog documents by converting them into a digital format, using specialised hardware and software.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB