How do they match: Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Analyze originals to evaluate color density, gradation highlights, middle tones, and shadows, using densitometers and knowledge of light and color.
  • Enter, position, and alter text size, using computers, to make up and arrange pages so that printed materials can be produced.
  • Examine finished plates to detect flaws, verify conformity with master plates, and measure dot sizes and centers, using light boxes and microscopes.
  • 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 and maintain laser plate-making equipment that converts electronic data to plates without the use of film.
  • Perform minor deletions, additions, or corrections to completed plates, on or off printing presses, using tusche, printing ink, erasers, and needles.
  • Scale copy for reductions and enlargements, using proportion wheels.
  • Set scanners to specific color densities, sizes, screen rulings, and exposure adjustments, using scanner keyboards or computers.

  • Program equipment to perform production tasks.