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Prepress Technicians and Workers
21
Alternate Occupation Titles
Offset
Plate Maker
Offset
Platemaker
Set
Up Worker
Setter
Print
Room Worker
Print
Tech
Print
Technician
Printing
Film Stripper
Printing
Plate Maker
Printing
Technician
Ad
Setter
Form
Setter
Letterpress
Setter
Lithographers
Printer
Monotype
Setter
Pantograph
Setter
Photoengraving
Printer
Roller
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Tender
Steel Die
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Type
Setter
Typesetters
Printer
1
O*NET-SOC Description
Format and proof text and images submitted by designers and clients into finished pages that can be
printed.
Includes digital and photo typesetting. May produce
printing
plates.
9
Tasks
Set
scanners to specific color densities, sizes, screen rulings, and exposure adjustments, using scanner keyboards or computers.
Arrange and mount typeset material and illustrations into paste-ups for
printing
reproduction, based on artists' or editors' layouts.
Enter, position, and alter text size, using computers, to make up and arrange pages so that
printed
materials can be produced.
Examine unexposed photographic plates to detect flaws or foreign particles prior to
printing.
Generate prepress proofs in digital or other format to approximate the appearance of the final
printed
piece.
Mount negatives and plates in cameras,
set
exposure controls, and expose plates to light through negatives to transfer images onto plates.
Operate presses to
print
proofs of plates, monitoring
printing
quality to ensure that it is adequate.
Perform "preflight" check of required font, graphic, text and image files to ensure completeness prior to delivery to
printer.
Perform minor deletions, additions, or corrections to completed plates, on or
off
printing
presses, using tusche,
printing
ink, erasers, and needles.
2
Detailed Work Activities
Inspected
printed
materials or other images to verify quality.
Operate photographic developing or
print
production equipment.
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