platemaker
Lithography shop worker
A platemaker is a person or machine that produces printing plates—the surfaces that transfer ink to paper in offset lithography and other printing processes.
The term covers both the skilled technician who operates plate-making equipment and the equipment itself: The platemaker burned the image onto the aluminum plate.
In modern printing, digital platemakers expose plates directly from computer files.
Grease-based flat plate printing
- offsetCompensate by opposing force
- prepressPrint preparation stage
- CMYKSubtractive color model
- cyanBlue-green hue
magenta · yellow · black · halftone · imposition · registration · proofing · flexography
Producing visual representations
- photosensitiveResponsive to radiant energy
- emulsionBlended immiscible liquids
- exposureState of being unprotected
- developerOne who builds things
fixer · etching · anodizing · graining · gumming · baking · photopolymer · ablation
Formal recording of participation
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- micrometerMillionth of a meter
- gaugeStandard of measurement
measurement · calibration · specifications · consistency · standards · resolution · fineness · repeatability
Component that executes instructions
Skilled manual tradesperson
- engraverOne who incises designs
- etcherOne who incises designs
- lithographerStone-based print artist
- pressmanPrinting machine operator
tradesman · apprentice · journeyman · printmaker · technician · operator · specialist
lithography
Grease-based flat plate printing
cyan · magenta · yellow · black · halftone · imposition · registration · proofing · flexography · screenprinting
imaging
Producing visual representations
- photosensitiveResponsive to radiant energy
- emulsionBlended immiscible liquids
- exposureState of being unprotected
developer · fixer · etching · anodizing · graining · gumming · baking · photopolymer · ablation · coating
registration
Formal recording of participation
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
- toleranceWillingness to accept difference
- micrometerMillionth of a meter
gauge · measurement · calibration · specifications · consistency · standards · resolution · fineness · repeatability · uniformity
processor
Component that executes instructions
cassette · autoloader · conveyor · punch · bender · stacker · dryer
artisan
Skilled manual tradesperson
- engraverOne who incises designs
- etcherOne who incises designs
- lithographerStone-based print artist
pressman · tradesman · apprentice · journeyman · printmaker · technician · operator · specialist
- Print Workersprinter, pressman, compositor, typesetter, bookbinder
- print shopsprint shop, print studio, copy shop, copy center, digital printer
- publishing jobseditor, publisher, writer, author, editor-in-chief
platemakerpressman
Printing machine operator
printer · compositor · finisher · stripper · proofreader