How do they match: Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Blueprint Machine Operator
  • Blueprinting Machine Operator
  • Composing Machine Operator
  • Desktop Operator
  • Digital Prepress Operator
  • EPP Operator
  • Electronic Operator
  • Electronic Masking System Operator
  • Electronic Prepress Operator
  • Halftone Operator
  • Intertype Operator
  • Keyboard Operator
  • Laser Beam Color Scanner Operator
  • Line Camera Operator
  • Linotype Operator
  • Lithograph Operator
  • Lithographic Camera Operator
  • Lithographic Press Operator
  • Lithographing Machine Operator
  • Lithopress Operator
  • Ludlow Machine Operator
  • Monotype Operator
  • Monotype Keyboard Operator
  • Pantograph Operator
  • Pantograph Machine Operator
  • Paste Up Copy Camera Operator
  • Photocomposing Machine Operator
  • Photoengraving Machine Operator
  • Photogravure Press Operator
  • Photolettering Machine Operator
  • Photolith Operator
  • Phototypesetter Operator
  • Prepress Operator
  • Printing Film Stripper
  • Repeat Photocomposing Machine Operator
  • Scanner Operator
  • Scanning Operator
  • Striping Machine Operator
  • Surface Mount Operator
  • Teletypesetter Operator
  • Terminal Makeup Operator
  • Typecasting Machine Operator
  • Typesetting Machine Operator
  • Typo Machine Operator

  • 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.
  • Activate scanners to produce positive or negative films for the black-and-white, cyan, yellow, and magenta separations from each original copy.
  • Arrange and mount typeset material and illustrations into paste-ups for printing reproduction, based on artists' or editors' layouts.
  • Inspect developed film for specified results and quality, using magnifying glasses and scopes, forwarding acceptable negatives or positives to other workers or to customers.
  • Mount negatives and plates in cameras, set exposure controls, and expose plates to light through negatives to transfer images onto plates.
  • Punch holes in light-sensitive plates and insert pins in holes to prepare plates for contact with positive or negative film.

  • Edit documents.
  • Operate digital imaging equipment.
  • Operate photographic developing or print production equipment.
  • Monitor equipment operation to ensure that products are not flawed.