Photographic Print Processor
What the work is
Edits, adjusts and enhances digital images, and prints photographic images from digital media using various computer software, calibration tools and other digital equipment.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Evaluates digital images for quality issues like exposure and focus
- Adjusts images by cropping and adjusting colour, brightness and contrast for optimal print quality
- Adjusts settings and runs automatic developing equipment
- Inspects prints and adjusts settings on print-making equipment to produce required number, size and type of prints
- Monitors and tests photographic processing and printing equipment, and maintains operational standards
- May develop black and white images by separate processes, and operate enlargers
- May assist customers to turn photographs into customisable products
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the sterile services department of a fictional regional hospital, plus a stone benchtop workshop in the same town. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- Every tray goes out to theatre complete, clean and checked, with time to spare
- A slab of stone is cut so cleanly that the join between two pieces is hard to see
- A busy day ends with nothing missing and the whole team sitting down for lunch
Hard days
- An urgent request arrives for something that cannot be made safe any faster
- Hours standing, wearing protective gear, in a warm and noisy room
- A counted set that comes back with something missing and no obvious reason
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 731936, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.