DTP Operator Tasks


  • 15 years' experience with daily use of InDesign to date
  • Reproducing electronic layouts from mock-ups/rough drafts
  • Placing images and text according to quality standards and typographic trends/rules
  • Creating finishing elements for spot uv, foiling, die-cutting, embossing, de-bossing
  • Setup of finished art with trapping, overprinting, blending considerations
  • Correcting and preserving colour modes, separations for intended output
  • Producing contract proofs via workflow - formeproofs, lasers, online proofs, colour managed proofs
  • Supply of final PDF for production output to plate setting and/or digital printing

Product experience

Corporate stationary, business forms, internal communications material, financial and operational reports. Marketing material, flyers, leaflets, brochures, posters, newsletters. Commercial magazines, retail leaflets, promotional packs. Book-work novels, educational publications. Branding concepts, various applications (POS items, clothing, accessories, gifts), signage. Social media and web content.