How do they match: Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Inspect developed film for specified results and quality, using magnifying glasses and scopes, forwarding acceptable negatives or positives to other workers or to customers.
  • Operate presses to print proofs of plates, monitoring printing quality to ensure that it is adequate.
  • Perform tests to determine lengths of exposures, by exposing plates, scanning line copy, and comparing exposures to tone range scales.
  • Proofread and perform quality control of text and images.

  • Inspected printed materials or other images to verify quality.