Show 7 Printing Offers Many Jobs Jobs' H Demand for graduates of the Printing Department remains high Utah Tech graphics division chairman Walter White reports that local printers have called in asking for nearly three times as many completing students to go to work as there are graduating this summer N Nor or is this an unusual cir cir- cir cir- There are a great many printing opportunities in inthe inthe inthe the Salt Lake valley and throughout the nation According According According Ac Ac- cording to a new Eastman Kodak report the demand will maintain itself through the for all types of graphic communications specialist t. t The information explosion has increased printing demands beyond the traditional general commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial plants Opportunities exist in plant in-plant businesses newspaper and magazine printers book publishers business forms greeting cards packaging and many other such firms seven Forty-seven percent of those answering Eastman Kodak's employed one through nine people 29 percent t employ eed 10 through 25 while 23 percent employed 26 or more Utah Tech's facilities are comparable to the best in any shop of similar size in m the State With about worth of equipment available students get on hands-on experience experience experience ex ex- ex- ex in most aspects of letterpress and offset printing Photographic strike-on strike composition and hot lead type up paste-up and copy preparation camera work stripping plate making presswork presswork presswork press- press work folding and some bindery bindery bindery bin bin- dery training are included in inthe inthe inthe the variety of experiences all printing students receive Only 40 new printing students are planned for in the department this Fall But the twelve-month twelve program will also have openings each of the succeeding quarters through the year One par particularly tic u I a r I y dis distinguishing feature of the printing program is the coop coop coop co op aspect In the students final quarter a at t the school only part of the day is spent on campus the balance is with a cooperating printer gaining hand first-hand experience of deadlines and the daily stresses of the printers printer's world Opportunities appear limitless and the pay can be most rewarding Skills learned at Utah Tech can be beneficial in many graphics avenues in the craft of printing management sales and |