Plan, explore, and apply to college using these great tools.
Career Details :: Strippers
Description
Cut and arrange film into flats (layout sheets resembling a film negative of text in its final form) which are used to make plates. Prepare separate flat for each color.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Makes proof from film flat to determine accuracy of flat.
- Determines or approves plans and page sequences to lay out job for specific printing press.
- Determines proportions needed to reduce or enlarge photographs and graphics to fit in designated area, using calculator or proportion scale.
- Touches up imperfections, using opaque and brush on negatives, and needle and crayon pencil on photographs.
- Sends completed flat to proofing area or platemaking area for preparation of final proof or lithographic plate.
- Strips negative from base.
- Cuts masks and arranges negatives to prepare for contact printing, plate exposure, or proof making.
- Applies rubber solution and collodion to toughen negative, cuts to size, and immerses in acid bath to prepare negative for stripping.
- Selects and inserts screen tints in film flat, using knowledge of dot percentages required to obtain specific colors.
- Examines proof returned by customer and makes corrections according to customer specifications.
- Aligns negatives and masks over unexposed film in vacuum frame to make negatives or positives for final film of each color.
- Examines pasteup, artwork, film, prints, and instructions to determine size and dimensions, number of job colors, and camera work needed.
- Assembles and aligns negatives or positives to assure register and fit with units of color.
- Examines negatives and photographs to detect defective areas, using lighted viewing table.
- Cuts image window area to allow exposure to plate or film, using razor or artist's knife.
- Draws ruled lines and borders around negatives or positives.
- Positions film negatives or positives on light table according to art layout, blueprint, and color register to form film flat.
Related Careers
- Camera Operators
- Film Laboratory Technicians
- Pasteup Workers
- Photographic Retouchers and Restorers
- Sewers, Hand
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
- Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Important Skills
- Product Inspection
- Equipment Selection
- Problem Identification
- Critical Thinking
- Operation and Control
Frequent Work Context
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Indoors
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Sitting
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
Related Majors
| Major | Add to XapPack |
|---|---|
| Electronic Publishing/Imaging |  [ add ] |
| Graphic Arts Technology | [ add ] |
| Graphic Communications Management | [ add ] |
| Graphic Communications Technology | [ add ] |
| Graphics Technology | [ add ] |
| Printing | [ add ] |
| Printing Management | [ add ] |
| Printing Technology | [ add ] |
| Printing/Applied Computer Science | [ add ] |
Institutions Offering Related Majors
No institutions found.