About This Role
The Prepress Operator provides accurate and professional prepress work, coordinating with others to meet deadlines and solve problems independently. This role involves preparing client files for various printing methods and ensuring high-quality output.
Responsibilities
- Preflight electronic files received from clients and check them for accuracy and completeness
- Inform account managers of any concerns prior to proceeding into production
- Ensure that all necessary fonts are included with the file
- Verify colors used and check the resolution of any continuous tones
- Apply required traps, overprints, knockouts, minimum type, and line thickness
- Create traps for different types of printing per specifications to ensure customer jobs print properly
- Adjust files to match customer specifications including step and repeat, distortions, and cutbacks
- Place proper marks, color bars, and tone scales on jobs, as required by customer
- Check work to ensure marks are correct including center marks, corner trims, punch marks, job name, and color designations are accurate
- Report errors or deviations from standard work orders to the Production Manager / Account Manager
- Ensure the accuracy of the final data deliverable up to and including PDF, TIFF, stepped LEN files, and FTP upload
- Complete a Quality Control Checklist prior to advancing job to next step in production
Requirements
- High school or college degree with a focus in graphics
- One to three years of experience in the printing industry (flexography, offset, screen, dry offset)
- Proficient in various graphic design and layout software applications (Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, PitStop, Photoshop, ElecRoc) on a Mac
- Thorough understanding of digital file formats (pdf, tiff, eps) from different operating systems
- Ability to output digital files to various output devices
- Ability to read and understand instructions
Important Details
- Schedule: Able to provide accurate, thorough, professional work on time and as scheduled; able to meet deadlines, work under pressure and problem solve independently