// Unit group · 7321

Pre-press Technicians

Pre-press technicians proof, format, set and compose text and graphics into a form suitable for use in various printing processes and representation in other visual media.

7 Craft and Related Trades Workers / 73 Handicraft and Printing Workers / 732 Printing Trades Workers / All level 4

// Working conditions

Air and dustChemicalsMachineryNoise

// Hand tools

No hand tools in this set.

operating graphic cameras and other photographic equipment to reproduce camera-ready copy onto films, plates and digital output devices

using computer applications to generate images, text, layouts and impositions for print and other visual media displays

operating plate making equipment to reproduce images from film to printing plates, digital output devices and presses

operating computer screen-based equipment for scanning, colour separation, colour correction, masking, creative design, combining, imposing, retouching, and other processes used to transfer copy to film and produce film for plate, digital output and cylinder productions

carrying out digital and chemical proofing from digital systems, and negative and positive films

evaluating printed proofs, checking and correcting them for quality

preparing and exposing carbon tissue for laying on cylinders by transfer method, and developing images.

Included occupations

Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Compositor
- Desktop publishing operator
- Electronic pre-press technician
- Photogravurist
- Photolithographer
- Plate maker (printing)
- Plate mounter (screen printing)
- Screen maker
- Typesetter

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