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Career Details :: Electronic Masking System Operators
Description
Operate computerized masking system to produce stripping masks used in production of offset lithographic printing plates.
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
- Removes film from plotting drum and puts film in automatic film processor to create masks.
- Activates plotting drum to make photographic mask exposures.
- Loads drafting unit with masking material to prepare for plotting and scoring of programmed figures or loads film into plotting drum to make photographic mask exposure.
- Studies layout sheet to determine shapes of windows drawn on layout sheet.
- Removes scored masking material from drafting table.
- Places material on light table and peels scored figures from masking material, using needle and tape.
- Positions artist's layout on digitizing tables of electronic masking system to prepare for data entry in system memory.
- Views monitors for feedback and error prompts, for visual representations of work in progress, and for numerical information such as width of line and last point plotted.
- Presses button to transfer data from system memory to disk.
- Presses button to activate vacuum to hold masking in place and to activate drafting unit that scores masking material with programmed figures.
- Touches symbol of option selected on menu and activates option with mouse.
- Touches reference points of designs on layout sheet, using mouse, and presses button of mouse to enter coordinates of design in system memory.
- Selects options on menu of electronic masking system, such as shape, dimensions of designs to be drawn, register marks, and retrieval of stored designs.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Interacting With Computers
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Important Skills
- Operation and Control
- Equipment Selection
- Reading Comprehension
- Product Inspection
- Operations Analysis
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Indoors
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- 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 ] |
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