Simulated workplace
Department
Prepress and Design
Prepress and Design turns client artwork into print ready files. The team preflights supplied files, fixes fonts, images and bleed, prepares imposition, produces colour managed proofs, makes plates for offset and releases digital files to the presses.
Responsibilities
What the team is accountable for
- Preflight and correct supplied artwork
- Prepare imposition for offset and digital output
- Produce contract proofs and obtain client approval
- Image and check offset plates
- Manage the digital file archive
Performance measures
How we know it is working
63%
Files passing first preflight
1.8 days
Proof approval turnaround
4
Plate remakes per month
People
Who works here
SK
Sarah Kowalczyk
Prepress Manager
Sarah runs preflight, proofing, imposition and platemaking and has led the prepress team for six years.
Systems
Where the work is recorded
Job Ticket Register
The live list of quotes and jobs with their specification, stage and due date, shared by every department.
Non-conformance and Complaints Register
The quality register recording product outside specification, rework, reprints and client complaints with their root causes and actions.
Machine Maintenance Log
The record of scheduled maintenance, faults, tag outs and repairs for presses, finishing machines, wide format devices and forklifts.
Scenarios
Assessment tasks in this department
Documents