• Providing excellent customer service, forging strong relationships • Generating customer-tailored products and services • Networking to create new business• Identifying areas for improvement in products and sales• Preparing artwork and carrying out pre-press checks prior to printing• Setting up and running the colour digital press to guarantee high quality printing • Designing and producing large format posters, outdoor banners and roller banners• Print Finishing: guillotining, toner foiling, framing, laminating and encapsulating• Booking jobs and creating invoices and delivery notes using Sage

• Developing and researching design briefs to meet with customer requirements • Creating original ideas and concepts and presenting to customers• Project managing and scheduling, working closely with Production team and IT Director • Professionally setting advertisements and converting them for website use• Scanning artwork for reproduction, ensuring high standards are maintained• Regularly editing and updating production system• Proof reading to ensure accuracy and minimise errors• Providing support for processing editorial pages, proofing and page transmission

• Project managing to a high standard and handling client files from start to finish• Pre-press checking, preparing, amending, creating digital files and making ready for print• Ripping files for print production• Setting up and running a Konica Minolta C8000e Digital Press to produce high quality print • Understanding colour profiling, management and PDF workflow to a high level• Maintaining machinery/print equipment• Ensuring accurate completion of all jobs within agreed deadlines• Troubleshooting problem files for pre-press and layout issues• Ensuring jobs flow smoothly, accurately and efficiently• Outputting colour correct digital proofs

• Taking projects from initial layout through final artwork to proof checking and approval• Pre-press checking, preparing, amending and creating digital files ready for print• Proof-reading artwork• Maintaining a high level of accuracy and meticulous attention to detail• Being creative with conceptual ideas and design layout• Retouching Images• Producing and supplying cutter guides and foil blocking dies to die maker• Imposing artwork to output colour correct digital proofs/plates• Making offset plates ready for print

• Reviewing incoming jobs following standard company operating procedures• Project managing, working to customer-driven deadlines and forecasting budgets • Handling workflow and pre-press processes to meet all technical specifications• Liaising with Production Manager or customer to obtain print specifications• Scheduling planning meetings with Production Manager and/or printer/customer• Confirming project deadlines according to customer/Production Manager’s needs• Continuously updating job tickets with detailed instructions for production • Keeping in constant communication with operations, production and customers• Assisting other departments when billing/production questions arise• Problem solving along with Production and Production Management• Quality assurance of each job• Replenishing materials - ink, plates, paper

• Communicating with customers and creating artwork from instructions• Producing bromides and chromalins using imagesetter for colour proofing• Outputting artwork to film• Using a print-down frame to transfer image from film to plate• 1 day-a-week studying at college Graphic Communication/Origination