About This Role
This Prepress Technician job keeps you moving, learning, and earning, supporting daily manufacturing operations by assembling products and operating equipment. If you like seeing results from what you do, this is your kind of work, helping to manufacture quality products, support production goals, and contribute to a team that keeps operations running safely and efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Review customer artwork, job tickets, and production specifications to create accurate, press-ready files for digital print production
- Develop, modify, and validate layouts using CAD, digital imaging, and prepress software to ensure compliance with production requirements
- Prepare production files by applying registration marks, color bars, masking, plate identification information, and other print specifications
- Inspect digital artwork, proofs, images, and layouts for quality, accuracy, completeness, and formatting issues before production
- Launch and monitor digital imaging or plate-making processes while ensuring production standards are met
- Enter, maintain, retrieve, and organize production data, digital files, and completed work orders within company systems
- Collaborate with production and operations teams to resolve artwork, layout, and workflow issues while meeting customer deadlines
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED required
- Ability to read and interpret work orders, production specifications, layouts, and printing instructions
- Strong computer skills with the ability to learn print production software and digital workflow systems
- 1+ years of experience in prepress, digital printing, graphic production, print manufacturing, or a related field preferred
- Experience preparing artwork, production files, and press-ready layouts for printing
- Familiarity with CAD software, digital imaging systems, file management, and production workflows
- Experience performing quality checks and troubleshooting file, layout, or formatting issues
- Ability to sit, stand, walk, and work at a computer workstation for extended periods
- Frequent visual inspection of artwork, proofs, layouts, and digital files
- Ability to use standard office and production equipment, including computers and imaging systems
- Capability to occasionally lift and move materials, files, or production supplies as needed
Nice to have:
- Additional training in graphic design, digital printing, prepress operations, or computer-aided design (CAD)
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify artwork, formatting, and production errors
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills in a fast-paced production environment
