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"PHOTOENGRAVING FINISHER"
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Job Description:

  • 1) Blocks out, re-etches, or intensifies designs to refine or repair copper, zinc, aluminum, and magnesium photoengraved printing plates according to copy and specifications, using artist's brushes and hand engraving and burnishing tools: Applies chalk to engraved surface and examines cut under magnifying glass to detect damaged halftone dots and evaluate quality of etching against copy.

  • 2) Outlines images, cuts border, blocks out backgrounds, and raises halftone dots, using engraving tools.

  • 3) Burnishes high halftone dots to correct defects in printing quality and contrast of cut, using burnishing tools.

  • 4) Repairs breaks in type, using handtools.

  • 5) May re-etch or re-engrave photographic plates to correct color tone valves or to intensify designs, using etching machine or engraver's handtools.

  • 6) May make proofs of completed monochrome and multicolor plates.

 

 

 


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DOT:   971.381-030

Job Number: 7391