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I'm looking to get into the printing industry and work as a printing press operator or something similar. If you find a job in a company that does that kind of work, who is it that interacts with the clients, the manager or the people doing all the technical work and running the presses? I'm a bit confused by what some websites are telling me...
I worked for a publishing company that did their own print press. Let me just say, probably not a good area to get into. Since more and more is going online, even books, that print press industry is getting smaller and smaller.
I worked for a publishing company that did their own print press. Let me just say, probably not a good area to get into. Since more and more is going online, even books, that print press industry is getting smaller and smaller.
Where are you from and was this publishing company mention in the same area?
Yes, it was in Chicago. It's actually a very big publishing company and very well known in Chicago. I actually bumped into a former co-worker from there a few months ago, and I was informed they have reduced a lot of their print press and laid off some workers that worked there in that department. With the internet, inventions like the IPad, Nook, Smart phones, the print press is going downhill. It will never completely disappear, but it will keep taking a turn for the worse.
I spent over ten years on the sales side of the printing world. It's an industry that is dying and tough to make any money. Color printing that I would have sold for $400 just 3-4 years ago you can buy online for $60 including shipping. Guys that I know who work at places that do long run printing are either counting the days until retirement or looking for other industries to jump into.
I'm looking to get into the printing industry and work as a printing press operator or something similar. If you find a job in a company that does that kind of work, who is it that interacts with the clients, the manager or the people doing all the technical work and running the presses? I'm a bit confused by what some websites are telling me...
Sales, management and process engineers dealt with the clients at my former employer. The only time employees deal with the clients if they're during trial runs. It can be hard getting into this type of field. Most companies want experience. Employees have lost fingers, broken bones and stitches.
I never saw a non experience person worked in the press room. Another way is too work in another department and try to get some cross training in the press room. Wages was pretty good ($23) when I worked there 4 years ago. Extrusion is also another process that my former employer use hand and hand with the press dept.
The way it work, press printed the material to customer spec. Extrusion laminate the printed material to another film type of material. The slitting dept. cut it down to customer spec.
To give you an idea. We made food product packaging. Keebler snack bags, freeze pops pouches and kraft cheese pouches.
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