PATHLENSA RISKATLAS.CO.ZA PRODUCT · SOUTH AFRICA
RISKATLAS.CO.ZA
Printing Machinist
OFO Code: 662201
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 662201
- Occupation
- Printing Machinist
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6622 · Printers
Official description
Printers set up and operate letterpress, lithographic, flexographic, gravure, newspaper, instant, digital and offset printing presses.
Trade occupation in the OFO source
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Gravure Machine Minder, Continuous Stationery Machine Minder
- Monitoring machine operations and quality of printing
- Producing digital print images, and transferring and outputting images
- Loading paper into feeding mechanisms
- Monitoring, evaluating and determining press to check print quality standards against proofs and detect malfunctions
- Producing a variety of printed products using relief, lithographic, flexographic and gravure printing presses, and in-line finishing systems
- Mixing ink and solvents to standard, and regulating paper and ink supply during print runs
- Setting, adjusting and monitoring substrate-feed mechanisms, delivery mechanisms, inking systems and other printing machine functions
- Maintaining, adjusting, repairing and cleaning machines
- Preparing plates, blankets and impression cylinders on small offset lithographic printing presses
2. Demand status
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned