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.
- Prepress Technician
- Electronic Prepress Operator (EPP Operator)
- Plate Maker
- Prepress Operator
- Pre-Press Technician
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- Desktop Operator
- Electronic Prepress Technician (EPP Tech)
- Plate Mounter
- Pre-Press Proofer
- Prepress Stripper
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- Activate scanners to produce positive or negative films for the black-and-white, cyan, yellow, and magenta separations from each original copy.
- Analyze originals to evaluate color density, gradation highlights, middle tones, and shadows, using densitometers and knowledge of light and color.
- Arrange and mount typeset material and illustrations into paste-ups for printing reproduction, based on artists' or editors' layouts.
- Correct minor film mask defects with litho tape or opaquing fluid.
- Enter, position, and alter text size, using computers, to make up and arrange pages so that printed materials can be produced.
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- Activate scanners to produce positive or negative films for the black-and-white, cyan, yellow, and magenta separations from each original copy.
- Analyze originals to evaluate color density, gradation highlights, middle tones, and shadows, using densitometers and knowledge of light and color.
- Arrange and mount typeset material and illustrations into paste-ups for printing reproduction, based on artists' or editors' layouts.
- Correct minor film mask defects with litho tape or opaquing fluid.
- Enter, position, and alter text size, using computers, to make up and arrange pages so that printed materials can be produced.
- Enter, store, and retrieve information on computer-aided equipment.
- Examine finished plates to detect flaws, verify conformity with master plates, and measure dot sizes and centers, using light-boxes and microscopes.
- Examine photographic images for obvious imperfections prior to plate making.
- Examine unexposed photographic plates to detect flaws or foreign particles prior to printing.
- Inspect developed film for specified results and quality, using magnifying glasses and scopes; forward acceptable negatives or positives to other workers or to customers.
- Lower vacuum frames onto plate-film assemblies, activate vacuums to establish contact between film and plates, and set timers to activate ultraviolet lights that expose plates.
- Maintain, adjust, and clean equipment, and perform minor repairs.
- Mix solutions such as developing solutions and colored coating solutions.
- Monitor contact between cover glass and masks inside vacuum frames, in order to prevent flaws resulting from overexposure or light reflection.
- Mount negatives and plates in cameras, set exposure controls, and expose plates to light through negatives in order to transfer images onto plates.
- Operate and maintain a variety of cameras and equipment, such as process, line, halftone, and color separation cameras, enlargers, electronic scanners, and contact equipment.
- Operate and maintain laser plate-making equipment that converts electronic data to plates without the use of film.
- Operate presses to print proofs of plates, monitoring printing quality to ensure that it is adequate.
- Perform close alignment or registration of double and single flats to sensitized plates prior to exposure, in order 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.
- Perform tests to determine lengths of exposures, by exposing plates, scanning line copy, and comparing exposures to tone range scales.
- Place masking paper on areas of plates not covered by positives or negatives, in order to prevent exposure.
- Position and angle screens for proper exposure.
- Position color transparencies, negatives, or reflection copies on scanning drums, and mount drums and heads on scanners.
- Punch holes in light-sensitive plates and insert pins in holes to prepare plates for contact with positive or negative film.
- Remove plate-film assemblies from vacuum frames, and place exposed plates in automatic processors to develop images and dry plates.
- Reposition lamps and adjust aperture controls in order to provide high quality images.
- Scale copy for reductions and enlargements, using proportion wheels.
- Select proper types of plates according to press run lengths.
- Set scanners to specific color densities, sizes, screen rulings, and exposure adjustments, using scanner keyboards or computers.
- Transfer images from master plates to unexposed plates, and immerse plates in developing solutions to develop images.
- Unload exposed film from scanners, and place film in automatic processors to develop images.
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- adjust production equipment/machinery setup
- arrange galley setups of type
- assure quality control in printing processes
- clean equipment or machinery
- compute production, construction, or installation specifications
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- adjust production equipment/machinery setup
- arrange galley setups of type
- assure quality control in printing processes
- clean equipment or machinery
- compute production, construction, or installation specifications
- determine film exposure settings
- determine specifications
- develop film or other photographic medium
- distinguish colors
- distinguish details in graphic arts material
- examine products or work to verify conformance to specifications
- fabricate printing plates
- fabricate, assemble, or disassemble manufactured products by hand
- identify color or balance
- install equipment or attachments on machinery or related structures
- load or unload material or workpiece into machinery
- maintain consistent production quality
- maintain or repair industrial or related equipment/machinery
- maintain production or work records
- make independent judgment in assembly procedures
- measure, weigh, or count products or materials
- mix paint, ingredients, or chemicals, according to specifications
- monitor production machinery/equipment operation to detect problems
- operate cameras
- operate graphic reproduction equipment
- operate printing equipment/machinery
- operate scanner
- operate video recorders
- paste up materials to be printed
- perform safety inspections in manufacturing or industrial setting
- prepare artwork for camera or press
- process photographic prints
- proofread printed or written material
- read blueprints
- read production layouts
- read specifications
- read technical drawings
- read work order, instructions, formulas, or processing charts
- set page layout or composition
- set up production equipment or machinery
- strip negatives
- understand technical operating, service or repair manuals
- use color analyzer
- use computer graphics design software
- use computers to enter, access or retrieve data
- use densitometer
- use drafting or mechanical drawing techniques
- use hand or power tools
- use precision measuring tools or equipment
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- Lithographer Tracking NEC (Navy - Enlisted)
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- Photoengraving Proofer
- Photographer, Lithographic
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- Compositor
- Dot Etcher
- Electrotyper
- Etcher, Hand
- Etcher, Photoengraving
- Linotype Operator
- Lithographic Platemaker
- Monotype-Keyboard Operator
- Paste-Up Artist
- Photoengraver
- Photoengraving Finisher
- Photoengraving Printer
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- Photoengraving Proofer
- Photographer, Lithographic
- Photographer, Photoengraving
- Photographic-Plate Maker
- Plate Finisher
- Proofsheet Corrector
- Retoucher, Photoengraving
- Scanner Operator
- Stereotyper
- Stripper
- Stripper, Lithographic II
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- Blueprinting-Machine Operator
- Compositor
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- Photoengraving-Proofer Apprentice
- Photographer Apprentice, Lithographic
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- Blueprinting-Machine Operator
- Compositor
- Compositor Apprentice
- Dot Etcher
- Dot Etcher Apprentice
- Electronic Masking System Operator
- Electrotyper
- Electrotyper Apprentice
- Equipment Monitor, Phototypesetting
- Etcher Apprentice, Photoengraving
- Etcher, Hand
- Etcher, Photoengraving
- Galley Stripper
- Lay-Out Former
- Linotype Operator
- Lithographic Platemaker
- Lithographic-Plate-Maker Apprentice
- Make-Up Arranger
- Monotype-Keyboard Operator
- Pantographer
- Paste-Up Artist
- Paste-Up Artist Apprentice
- Photo Mask Maker, Electron-Beam
- Photo Mask Technician, Electron-Beam
- Photocomposing-Machine Operator
- Photoengraver
- Photoengraver Apprentice
- Photoengraving Finisher
- Photoengraving Printer
- Photoengraving Proofer
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- Photoengraving-Proofer Apprentice
- Photographer Apprentice, Lithographic
- Photographer, Lithographic
- Photographer, Photoengraving
- Photographic-Plate Maker
- Photolettering-Machine Operator
- Phototypesetter Operator
- Plate Finisher
- Plate Grainer
- Plate-Grainer Apprentice
- Platemaker, Semiconductor Packages
- Proofsheet Corrector
- Repeat Chief
- Repeat-Photocomposing-Machine Operator
- Retoucher, Photoengraving
- Roller Varnisher
- Roller-Print Tender
- Router
- Scanner Operator
- Stereotyper
- Stereotyper Apprentice
- Stripper
- Stripper Apprentice
- Stripper, Lithographic I
- Stripper, Lithographic II
- Terminal-Makeup Operator
- Transferrer
- Type-Proof Reproducer
- Typesetting-Machine Tender
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