How do they match: Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Form Setter
  • Form Worker
  • Computer Typesetter
  • Job Forwarder
  • Layout Former

  • 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.
  • Examine unexposed photographic plates to detect flaws or foreign particles prior to printing.
  • Generate prepress proofs in digital or other format to approximate the appearance of the final printed piece.
  • Inspect developed film for specified results and quality, using magnifying glasses and scopes, forwarding acceptable negatives or positives to other workers or to customers.
  • Set scanners to specific color densities, sizes, screen rulings, and exposure adjustments, using scanner keyboards or computers.

  • Program equipment to perform production tasks.