How do they match: Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Perform "preflight" check of required font, graphic, text and image files to ensure completeness prior to delivery to printer.
  • Perform close alignment or registration of double and single flats to sensitized plates prior to exposure to produce composite images.
  • Perform minor deletions, additions, or corrections to completed plates, on or off printing presses, using tusche, printing ink, erasers, and needles.
  • Perform tests to determine lengths of exposures, by exposing plates, scanning line copy, and comparing exposures to tone range scales.
  • Maintain, adjust, and clean equipment, and perform minor repairs.
  • Proofread and perform quality control of text and images.

  • Program equipment to perform production tasks.