How do they match: Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Pre-Press Production Technician
  • Pre-Press Proofer
  • Prepress Manager
  • Prepress Operator
  • Prepress Specialist
  • Prepress Stripper
  • Prepress Supervisor
  • Prepress Technician
  • Press Specialist
  • Press Technician
  • Cold Type Artist
  • Digital Prepress Operator
  • Digital Prepress Tech
  • Digital Prepress Technician
  • Electronic Pre-Press Technician
  • Electronic Prepress Operator
  • Electronic Prepress Technician
  • Graphic Artist
  • Graphic Arts Technician
  • Lithographic Press Operator
  • Lithographic Artist
  • Paste Up Artist
  • Paste-Up Artist
  • Paste-Up Artist Apprentice
  • Photogravure Press Operator
  • Process Artist

  • Arrange and mount typeset material and illustrations into paste-ups for printing reproduction, based on artists' or editors' layouts.
  • Generate prepress proofs in digital or other format to approximate the appearance of the final printed piece.
  • 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.
  • Punch holes in light-sensitive plates and insert pins in holes to prepare plates for contact with positive or negative film.
  • Select proper types of plates according to press run lengths.