How do they match: 51-5111.00 - Prepress Technicians and Workers

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.

Operate and maintain a variety of cameras and equipment, such as process, line, halftone, and color separation cameras, enlargers, electronic scanners, and contact equipment.
Operate and maintain laser plate-making equipment that converts electronic data to plates without the use of film.
Operate presses to print proofs of plates, monitoring printing quality to ensure that it is adequate.
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.
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.
Set scanners to specific color densities, sizes, screen rulings, and exposure adjustments, using scanner keyboards or computers.

How do they match: Prepress Technicians and Workers