Experience

Belmont Press

• United Kingdom
• Printing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• HP Indigo & Prepress Mac Operator

  • Jun 2015 - Present

  Repro and prepressOperated two HP Indigo series 7 presses.Small format finishing (laminating, cutting, creasing, folding, saddle-stiching, perfect binding)Wide-format printing and finishing Repro and prepressOperated two HP Indigo series 7 presses.Small format finishing (laminating, cutting, creasing, folding, saddle-stiching, perfect binding)Wide-format printing and finishing



Inkorporate Print

• Prepress Operator

  • 2008 - Jun 2015

  INKorporate Print Artworker and Pre-press mac operator 2008 – 2015 • Checking and editing clients documents and artwork, using the Adobe Creative Suite, Quark Xpress or CorelDraw on a Macintosh Computer or PC workstation. Creating artwork from clients brief. Scanning, retouching, layouting and typesetting. Generating proof's and mock-ups for packages, boxes or folders. Generating press-ready pdf's, imposing and sending finished artwork to plate via a Heidelberg Metadimension workflow. Producing printing plates for the Heidelberg presses using the Heidelberg Topsetter 102 thermal CTP.• Current Software: Heidelberg Metadimension, Quark XPress, Indesign CS6, Photoshop CS6, Illustrator 6, Kodak Preps 5.2, Acrobat X, Pitstop Pro, MS Office 2008, CorelDraw, Caldera, Onyx Postershop RIP for large format inkjet printing, EFI Fiery RIP and Xerox FreeFlow for tonner-based high volume production printers.• Designed packages, point of sale materials including die lines, UV varnish, hot foil elements• Large format printing for outdoor and indoor, variable data and digital printing• Abilities include accurate and methodical practices with tight deadlines, with emphasis on multitasking and the ability to prioritise. High emphasis on customer liaison, PDF flightchecking and problem solving, retouching and colour conversion. • Periodic maintenance of the prepress equipment: cleaning the plate processors, checking printing film densities, loading supplies and discharging used chemicals for safe storage and recycling.



AmmaPrint

• prepress

  • 2001 - 2003

  Profile GraphicsArtworker, Pre-press, DTP and digital print operator 2006 – 2007 Operated the Minolta Bizhub C500 si C450 digital presses, and Heidelberg Quickmaster DI + Rip Harlequin, output on Linotronic 330. Ammaprint 2004 – 2006DTP and Pre-press operator  Outputting files direct to film using an Heidelberg Delta Workflow serving two Heidelberg B2 presses. Other duties included imposition using Preps software. Produced varnish, foiling, die cutter guides and UV elements.ARTprint 1999 - 2004DTP and Pre-press operator Creating the graphics for large display panels from supplied client artwork or brief. Poster work and POS material. Responsible for outputting files direct to film using Heidelberg Delta workflow. Imposition using Preps software, variable data printing, daily operating two WinNT servers, one with Delta General software coupled to a Linotype Herkules Pro imagesetter and another with Harlequin RIP software, coupled to the Quickmaster DI digital press.