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Groupings and jobs in larger printworks
SALES
- Generating leads, closing sales
- Account management
- Travellers
- Sales Representatives
ADMINISTRATION
- Estimating and costing,
purchasing, planning, preparing
records, pricing and invoicing
- Finance
- Wage Clerks
- Estimators
- Order Clerks
- Human Resource management
DESIGN
- Producing layouts, or
individual elements such as
logos or illustrations
- Designers
- Illustrators
WORKS
- Paper Warehouse
- Warehouseman
COMPOSITING ROOM
- Typesetting, proofreading,
make-up and imposition
- Typesetting or compositors
- Proofreaders
- Platemakers (for lithopress)
- Engineers
WAREHOUSE & BINDERY
- Perforating, numbering,
folding, trimming, sewing,
covering and finishing
DESPATCH
- Packing, labelling and
sending away
MACHINE ROOM
- Operating various machines for
different printing processes
- Printers
- Machine Minders
- Engineers
... ‘proofreading is a good job - you’ll have a job for life’. Yeah right! It
worked for quite a few years but not enough.”…It’s disappointing
for someone my age because if there were proofreading jobs, I could
still be proofreading even though I’m 70.”
← 115.
Classified newspaper
advertisements showing
positions vacant for
women in third column
investment in the printing process by the employer.
Other skilled roles included compositors (people laying out type) and
proofreaders. Bench hands were required for fine work that had to be done
by hand and were more likely to be done by women. [115.]
Skilled printers working with reliable machinery and
suitable
materials could produce printed work that
‘YOUR VOICE’
was of exceptional quality and would attract
How has the area that you have
prestigious design work for customers. The
worked in changed over time?
designer F Gregory Brown had started producing
Have you asked people who have long
posters for the London Underground in 1914. In
working lives about their stories
1925, he had won the Gold Medal at the Paris
of training or how they gained work
Exhibition of Decorative Arts for his textile
experience? Perhaps it is time to review
designs.
Through the 1920s, he designed
your own skills as it is likely that you
posters
for
a wide range of well-regarded
will have evidence of living and
businesses including the Empire Marketing Board,
working in new ways
Railway
Companies, ICI, Witney Blankets, Derry &
recently.
