How do they match: Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Production Coordinator
  • Pre-Press Production Technician

  • 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.

  • Activate scanners to produce positive or negative films for the black-and-white, cyan, yellow, and magenta separations from each original copy.
  • Enter, position, and alter text size, using computers, to make up and arrange pages so that printed materials can be produced.
  • Perform close alignment or registration of double and single flats to sensitized plates prior to exposure to produce composite images.

  • Clean production equipment.
  • Examine condition of property or products.
  • Maintain production or processing equipment.
  • Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
  • Monitor equipment operation to ensure that products are not flawed.
  • Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment.
  • Operate photographic developing or print production equipment.
  • Program equipment to perform production tasks.
  • Repair production equipment or tools.
  • Select production equipment according to product specifications.