How do they match: Prepress Technicians and Workers

  • Print Room Worker
  • Print Tech
  • Print Technician
  • Printing Film Stripper
  • Printing Plate Maker
  • Printing Technician
  • Production Coordinator
  • Lithographers Printer
  • Photoengraving Printer
  • Pre-Press Production Technician
  • Roller Print Tender
  • Steel Die Printer
  • Typesetters Printer

  • 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.
  • Arrange and mount typeset material and illustrations into paste-ups for printing reproduction, based on artists' or editors' layouts.
  • Enter, position, and alter text size, using computers, to make up and arrange pages so that printed materials can be produced.
  • 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.
  • 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 close alignment or registration of double and single flats to sensitized plates prior to exposure to produce composite images.
  • Perform minor deletions, additions, or corrections to completed plates, on or off printing presses, using tusche, printing ink, erasers, and needles.

  • Clean production equipment.
  • Examine condition of property or products.
  • Inspected printed materials or other images to verify quality.
  • 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.