One significant task (label printing) has been added to my department that was originally part of production. It is a bit of grunt work, but the right person will see how it all ties together and how important those tasks are.
Inquisitive & Enjoys learning (wants to know the why?’)
Attention to detail is a must
Professional
Comfortable with Complexity
Comfortable with a fast paced environment
Adapts easily to change
Competent
Conscientious
Team player
Not easily frustrated tenacious
Accountable for but not limited to :
Converting digital artwork for our proprietary digital press utilizing scripts, in-house procedures, and prior pre-press knowledge
Producing digital art work proofs for internal and external customers, including digitizing and vectorization of artwork when required
Maintaining all artwork databases while adhering to established naming and filing conventions
Ordering, receiving, and cataloging all new and reordered flexographic plates
Assisting inventory team with maintaining and managing plate storage
Developing, laying out, and revising label artwork for finished product rolls
Preparing, printing, and correlating all skid tags, proofs, and production orders for production team
Cultivating new color books, formulations, and procedures when presented with new substrates, inks, and workflow issues
Addressing after-hour issues from production team relating to artwork, labels, and plates
Advocating for cross functional collaboration between production, customer service, and QC teams, ensuring quality and pre-press standards are executed and maintained for all projects
Competencies :
Strong follow-up and follow-through, skilled with tracking processes and keeping up with timelines and deadlines
Inquisitive and curious about how and why processes / workflows operate, knows when to ask questions
Attention to detail - able to review orders, identify and correct issues, and check and recheck to ensure
Understanding of color process and spot colors, layout, typography, and flexographic plate making
Demonstrated experience with Adobe Creative Cloud , proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, and Adobe InDesign
USE THIS DESCRIPTION
Proofing customer artwork to company specifications / templates using Adobe InDesign
- Adjusting artwork for printability including overprints, bleeds, color conversions, recreation of raster elements into vector, etc.
- Send files through ESKO Automation Engine to be made into flexographic plates
- Produce flexographic printing plates
- Attend meetings to stay up to date on jobs on daily production schedule
- Usage and maintenance of EPSON proofer
- Paper color profiling for Screen NX digital press
- Proofing customer artwork to company specifications / templates using Adobe InDesign
- Adjusting artwork for printability including overprints, bleeds, color conversions, recreation of raster elements into vector, etc.
- Send files through ESKO Automation Engine to be made into flexographic plates
- Produce flexographic printing plates
- Attend meetings to stay up to date on jobs on daily production schedule
- Usage and maintenance of EPSON proofer
- Paper color profiling for Screen NX digital press
Benefits :
- Health insurance