How do they match: Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Computer Typesetter
  • Electron-Beam Photo Mask Maker
  • Electron-Beam Photo Mask Technician
  • Electronic Masking System Operator
  • Electronic Operator
  • Electronic Pre-Press Technician
  • Electronic Prepress Operator
  • Electronic Prepress Technician
  • Graphic Designer
  • Lithograph Designer

  • 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.

  • Enter, position, and alter text size, using computers, to make up and arrange pages so that printed materials can be produced.
  • Enter, store, and retrieve information on computer-aided equipment.
  • 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.
  • Set scanners to specific color densities, sizes, screen rulings, and exposure adjustments, using scanner keyboards or computers.