About this role
Graphic Pre-Press Trades Workers manipulate, set and compose text and graphics into a format suitable for printing and other visual media.
What you might do day-to-day in this job
Typical tasks for a Graphic Pre-press Trades Worker include:
- 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.
Courses that can lead to a career as a Graphic Pre-press Trades Worker
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- Apprenticeship
- On-the-job training
- 4 years
- Cost varies
- Financial help available
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available
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- Traineeship
- On-the-job training
- 1 year
- Cost varies
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available
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- Apprenticeship
- On-the-job training
- 4 years
- Cost varies
- Financial help available
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available
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