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Printing textile technician

Latest available data: March 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Clothing printing press machine operator Cutting and printing machine set-up operator Printing textile machine operator Printing textile supervisor Printing textile technician Screen printing technician Textile printing press operator Textile printing technician Textile screen printer technician

Printing textile technicians perform operations related to setting up the printing processes.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Setting, adjusting and monitoring substrate-feed mechanisms, delivery mechanisms, inking systems and other printing machine functions;
(b) Mixing ink and solvents to standard, and regulating paper and ink supply during print runs;
(c) Monitoring, evaluating and determining press to check print quality standards against proofs and detect malfunctions;
(d) Producing a variety of printed products using relief, lithographic, flexographic and gravure printing presses, and in-line finishing systems;
(e) Preparing plates, blankets and impression cylinders on small offset lithographic printing presses;
(f) Loading paper into feeding mechanisms;
(g) Monitoring machine operations and quality of printing;
(h) Maintaining, adjusting, repairing and cleaning machines;
(i) Producing digital print images, and transferring and outputting images.

Knowledge

  • Textiles (clothes, footwear and leather)

Digital competencies

  • Designing systems and products
  • Operating machinery for the manufacture and treatment of textiles, fur and leather products
  • Organising, planning and scheduling work and activities
  • Monitoring quality of products
  • Monitoring operational activities

Digital competencies

  • Analysing and evaluating information and data

Personal competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Professional groups of the occupation

Craft and related trades workers

Handicraft and printing workers

Printing trades workers

Printers

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Printers

227

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

19,25%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-9,20% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

56,39%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

15,42%

Part-time contracts

1,14% Turnover index

260

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-10%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Handicraft and printing workers

66%

34%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Handicraft and printing workers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Printing trades workers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Printers

No experience
10%
Less than 1 year
26%
Between 1 and 2 years
9%
Between 2 and 4 years
33%
Between 4 and 8 years
4%
More than 8 years
18%
Manufacturing
29%
Arts, entertainment and recreation
24%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
14%
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
8%
Education
8%
Others
17%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.