Re: Pre Press vs. Press salaries
That came out wrong. My respect for both. As I said I've never worked in another shop in prepress. But I've been blamed here as teh prepress guy. I had to learn how to have a tough skin in prepress especially doing design work. Every little thing you do wrong get's noticed.
Anyway our pressman quit recently right after we bought our first sheetfed. I guess because he thought he should be making more money but after calling in sick for a week repeatedly how he thought that I don't know.
So now I am the prepress and the pressman. Press work most of the day and prepress the rest because I can do that alone. We have to have somebody here with us to operate the press.
Our pressman quit not long after we bought our first sheetfed. My operator experience has been on our half web. My boss and I were able to move on and we have decided not to hire another pressman and I kinda like it this way besides having to clean up after this guy. I hope the best for him.
Small shops low pay but you get to experience both sides of the fence. When I have a pressman point a finger at me in my shop I either apologize or fix it myself depends on the finger pointing. I know what you mean and I'm sure your a better prepress dude than I and for that I am envious.
That came out wrong. My respect for both. As I said I've never worked in another shop in prepress. But I've been blamed here as teh prepress guy. I had to learn how to have a tough skin in prepress especially doing design work. Every little thing you do wrong get's noticed.
Anyway our pressman quit recently right after we bought our first sheetfed. I guess because he thought he should be making more money but after calling in sick for a week repeatedly how he thought that I don't know.
So now I am the prepress and the pressman. Press work most of the day and prepress the rest because I can do that alone. We have to have somebody here with us to operate the press.
Our pressman quit not long after we bought our first sheetfed. My operator experience has been on our half web. My boss and I were able to move on and we have decided not to hire another pressman and I kinda like it this way besides having to clean up after this guy. I hope the best for him.
Small shops low pay but you get to experience both sides of the fence. When I have a pressman point a finger at me in my shop I either apologize or fix it myself depends on the finger pointing. I know what you mean and I'm sure your a better prepress dude than I and for that I am envious.