Description
Lay out pages by selecting sizes, styles and entering text and graphics into computer systems.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 4 occupations
- Optional in 3 occupations
- Total: 7 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- ImagesetterImagesetters process images and graphic templates by using phototypesetting machines. They optimise the templates for the best possible result by determining the right arrangement …
- Prepress technicianPrepress technicians prepare printing processes by formatting, setting and composing text and graphics into a suitable form. This includes the capture of text and image and process…
- TypesetterTypesetters ensure that printed text is correctly set and visually pleasing. While typesetting was originally done manually and later employed techniques like linotype and phototyp…
- Prepress operatorPrepress operators create a prepress proof, or sample of what the finished product will look like. In many printing contracts, the client at this stage decides whether the print…
Optional for
- Reprographics technicianReprographics technicians are responsible for the full or partial process of reproduction of graphical documents through mechanical-driven or digital means, such as photography, sc…
- Advertising copywriterAdvertising copywriters are responsible for the written or verbal design of advertisements and commercials. They write slogans, catchphrases, etc. Advertising copywriters work clos…
- Scanning operatorScanning operators tend scanners. They feed print materials into the machine and set controls on the machine or on a controlling computer to obtain the highest resolution scan. Oth…