About This Role
This remote Prepress Operator role involves working with account managers and the in-house prepress team to ensure efficient workflow, maintain print quality, and meet production deadlines. It is a hands-on production position for someone with commercial printing experience who understands print specifications, colour management, imposition, and prepress workflows.
Responsibilities
- Review incoming files against tickets, checking trim size, bleed, margins, image resolution, fonts, colour specifications, page count, page order, overprint, trapping, rich black, and missing assets
- Use Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro, and Enfocus PitStop to resolve prepress issues
- Coordinate with account managers when corrections require input
- Manage PDF proofs, generate and send proofs for approval, implement requested changes, and issue revised proofs until approval is received
- Prepare press-ready layouts based on press specifications and paper sizes, including step-and-repeat, work-and-turn, sheetwise, booklet signatures, creep adjustments, registration marks, and colour bars
- Create new layouts when an existing template does not accommodate dimensions or specifications
- Process approved files through Kodak Prinergy and, where required, Fujifilm XMF, ensuring files are ready for the in-house team
- Manage production priorities in coordination with account managers, balancing deadlines, approvals, and production requirements
- Communicate proactively, keep account managers informed of file issues, pending approvals, and potential delays
Requirements
- At least 3 years of hands-on prepress experience with a commercial offset printing company, either sheetfed or web
- Proven experience imposing print and preparing files for production
- Daily, practical experience with professional prepress workflows and imposition software
- Strong working knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat Pro on a Mac
- Experience with Enfocus PitStop for preflight, PDF inspection, and file correction
- A solid understanding of commercial print production, including colour separations, CMYK and spot colours, Pantone specifications, overprint, trapping, bleeds, and print marks
- Good written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate clearly and professionally
- Strong attention to detail, sound production judgment, and the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines independently
- Reliable internet with speeds of at least 25 Mbps, a backup internet connection, backup power, and a quiet, suitable workspace
Nice to have:
- Experience with Kodak Prinergy and Preps, Fujifilm XMF, Screen Trueflow, Heidelberg Prinect, or Agfa Apogee
About the Company
LearnTastic is an organization that focuses on production workflow.
