John Mott Email & Phone Number

821 Marina Vista Ave., Martinez, Ca 94553-1234

Mott Graphics, a small company that's big on service, is pleased to offer graphic production, graphic design, prepress and commercial printing services to our customers, large and small. We specialize in, but are not limited to, providing EPA- and FIFRA-compliant ECL (expanded content label) production services to the agricultural chemicals industry, to which we bring decades of combined staff experience; prepress services; and commercial printing of all kinds, including canister label printing. When Independent Printing Company closed its doors in June 2016 after 106 years of business, Mott Graphics was created to continue offering our expertise to our valued customers, old and new. Call us today to see what we can do for you! 925-387-5640.

San Francisco Bay Area

Martinez, Ca

Project management, traffic management, process improvement, proofreading, production, technical support, customer support, developing solid customer and supplier relationships, communicating clearly, and facilitating the goals of senior management while at the same time giving staff the respect and resources they deserve.

South San Francisco, Ca

• File preparation, image editing, and color matching for digital/variable data printing and traditional offset printing to 40" in PDF-based Rampage CTP workflow.• Contract proofing and poster/banner plotting.• Platesetter maintenance and linearization.• Marcom online asset management.

Danville, Ca

• Senior Production Artist / IT Support Technician for award-winning advertising and marketing firm.• Responsible for producing digital mechanicals, PDFs, web, and video graphics using Adobe Creative Suite, QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Office.• Projects included brochures, tour guides, area maps, plot maps, inserts, flyers, annual reports, newspaper and magazine ads, billboards, bulletins, bus kings, BART 2-sheets, sales displays, kiosks, and more.• Image manipulation, retouching, and color correction, flatbed and Imacon virtual drum scanning.• Purchasing and placement of stock photography.• Macintosh hardware/software technical support, troubleshooting, and training for creative, production, and account services staff.• Maintenance and professional color management of monitors and network printers.• Outstanding mathematics, grammar, and spelling skills.

Concord, Ca

Electronic page assembly, ripping, trapping, imposition, proofing. (Part time, evenings)

San Francisco

• Seven years as prepress supervisor responsible for meeting proofing deadlines and press schedules.• Ten years digital prepress experience serving major Bay Area companies.• Preflight, page assembly, image editing, imposition, proofing, and platemaking for 8-color sheetfed and 6-color web presses.• Expertise in producing a wide variety of marketing collateral and complex custom print projects.• Set up e-mail, FTP, and Internet access on Prepress LAN.• Extensive knowledge of Win/Mac file transfer and conversion techniques and troubleshooting.• Scitex server administrator responsible for RAID operation, maintenance, backups, and archiving.• Performed Macintosh hardware and software installation and troubleshooting.• Developed preflight procedures and trained personnel in preflight, page assembly, e-mail, ftp, and archiving.• Designed and developed numerous documents and forms for General Manager and Prepress department.• Wrote manual of department standards.

On a freelance basis, I created 2- and 4-page, 4-color technical datasheets in QuarkXPress for a full line of telecommunications performance analysis products based on the client’s concept with revisions communicated via annotated PDF or fax for the Operational Head Office of Spirent Communications in Sunnyvale, CA.

DS (Dainippon Screen) flatbed scanning, B&W camera, and imaging/processing of E-6 color transparencies for prepress shop in Long Beach, CA

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