Reference Book
Job ticket / work order
A job ticket is an electronic form or a paper form used to track costs for labor,
material and press time of a given job. It includes the spec, details of the
production plan, needed materials, notes to the production employees and a
section where production time are recorded. This ticket moves with the job
through production and communicates the client’s spec to production person.
The job ticket can be a sheet of paper or an envelope or can be a part of an
electronic file that can be accessed by the computer throughout the production
plant.
Practical Activities- Perform paper feeding steps
- Control the registration
- Plate loading
- Setting of Inking and dampening units
- Setting of delivery unit
- Estimation for a printing job.
Assessment Activity
Calculation
- Calculate the press cost to print 18000 posters of 11’x17” size printed in
two colours on one side on 100 GSM art paper which costs Rs. 2500 per
ream of 23” x 18” basic sheet size. The print area of the machine is 24” x
18.5”. (Assume cost for one exposed plate is Rs 350 and Printing cost for
1000 impressions for one colour is Rs. 250).
TE Questions - Discuss the steps and procedures for setting up the paper feed on an offset
press. - Explain how printing unit is prepared, including adjustments for ink and
water for both direct and indirect dampening systems. - The part of the ink fountain that can be adjusted to allow more or less ink
flow are___ - True or false? A register unit is a mechanism that aligns the paper for
printing.