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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.5 - operating machinery for the manufacture of products S8.5.6 - operating print and photographic production equipment Ink printing plates
Description
Cover the plate with a thin coat of water and apply oil-based inks with a rubber roller, repelling and sticking the ink to the image area. This image can then further be transferred to paper in various printing processes.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 0 occupations
- Optional in 1 occupations
- Total: 1 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Optional for
- Prepress technicianPrepress technicians prepare printing processes by formatting, setting and composing text and graphics into a suitable form. This includes the capture of text and image and process…
Related skills
- Printing materials
- Printing plate making
- Adobe Illustrator
- Apply opaque
- Prepress processes
- Prepare offset printing machine
- Prepare films for printing plates
- Troubleshoot
- Use typesetting software
- Follow safety precautions in printing
- Use colour printing programs
- Communicate with customers
- Output electronic files
- Graphic design
Last updated on February 18, 2026
