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Career Guidance Skills information skills S2.4 - processing information S2.4.2 - entering and transforming information Output electronic files
Description
Load customer supplied electronic files onto the prepress file server, whilst checking them for completeness and potential problems. Communicate eventual problems with customers and production personnel.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 1 occupations
- Total: 3 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…
Optional for
- 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…
Related skills
- Prepress processes
- Produce prepress proof
- Lay out digital written content
- Printing materials
- Quality standards
- Adobe Illustrator
- Graphics editor software
- Synfig
- Printing techniques
- Interpret illustration needs
- Use colour printing programs
- Communicate with customers
Last updated on February 18, 2026
