As with printing, if you have are practical and like hands-on work, have strong attention to detail and enjoy completing projects, then print finishing is for you! It will be your responsibility to cut, fold and bind printed material to create finished products. It will be in your hands to ensure the end result meets the client's expectations.

Next time you look at a piece of fancy food packaging, or some clever cartons or boxes, or a beautifully bound book, or some advertising material with push-out panels, or a supermarket promotional stand for Coca-Cola, have a think about how it came to be.

Print finishers are the trades professionals who put the finishing touches to a print job. If the finishing isn't done right, the job fails. The first thing an industry expert looks for is the way a job has been finished. Modern print finishing equipment is highly computerised and allows operators to express their creativity to the max.

You can begin a print finishing career as a full-time apprentice (Certificate III in Printing & Graphic Arts [Print Finishing]) or as a full-time trainee or as a school-based trainee (Certificate II in Printing & Graphic Arts [General]). You may also apply for work experience within a print finishing business or section.