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Originally Posted by B-B
I often come across companies advertising for Mac operators.
Obviously duties, and task differ from company to company and specific area of design, but I am unfamiliar of the kind of duties Mac operators receive, it’s my understanding Mac operators simply finish artwork renderings, and things of this nature.
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Hi B-B,
Up until recently I worked as a Mac Operator (or Mac Artworker) - depending on how the company is structured, you might take a designers concepts (usually pencil sketches but sometimes illustrator files with about 500 spot colours in them!) and turn them into print-ready artwork. Or, you may come up with the design yourself and take it straight through to artwork.
Also, I touched for a lot of the text heavy documents which meant keying them in (or OCR'ing them) and flowing it into a master page layout in Quark (urgh).
Powerpoint presentations, screensavers, websites, looking after the network and stuff like that made up the rest of the time - Mac Operator is a pretty ambiguous description so you would need to check how the company percieves a Mac Operators duties as it may also include making the tea and giving the bosses jag its weekly valet...
Hope this helps!
Pedge