Review customer specs and artwork
Prepare digital files for printing
Check resolution and dimensions
Select vinyl, paper, film, fabric, or plastics
Choose adhesives for the application
Operate large-format printers
Load printing materials
Set up print jobs
Use colour management systems
Inspect output during printing
Fix printing problems
Operate cutting equipment
Cut and weed vinyl graphics
Laminate printed graphics
Mount graphics on rigid materials
Assemble signs and displays
Inspect finished products
Prepare graphics for transport and installation
Apply decals and graphics
Help install larger signs
Maintain equipment
Follow safety procedures
School Subject: Photography
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Photographers
Legacy duties
- Study requirements of a particular assignment and decide on type of camera, film, lighting and background accessories to be used
- Determine picture composition, make technical adjustments to equipment and photograph subject
- May operate scanners to transfer photographic images to computers
- May operate computers to manipulate photographic images
- May adapt existing photographic images and create new digitized images to be included in multimedia/newmedia products
- May use delicate instruments, such as optical microscopes attached to cameras
- May process exposed film
- May use airbrush, computer or other techniques to retouch negatives
- Medical photographers may work closely with medical illustrators.
- Photographers may specialize in areas such as portrait photography, commercial photography, scientific photography, forensic photography, medical photography, digitized photography, multimedia photography or photojournalism.