What are the responsibilities and job description for the Prepress Technician position at 48 Hr Books Inc?
Description:
Producing materials for book printing in a fully-digital book printing environment. Creating layouts for interior pages and book covers using Microsoft Word, Acrobat Pro, InDesign, Photoshop and other mainstream programs. Maintaining quality standards and prepress files.
Duties:
- Determining prepress requirements by reviewing work orders.
- If requested, reformatting inside pages and creating interior book layout based on clients' requirements using Microsoft Word and/or Adobe inDesign.
- Maintaining quality results by editing existing layouts and making adjustments to text as requested by client; adhering to set prepress standards.
- Reviewing clients' PDFs for common layout or setup errors
- Creating and importing graphics, scanning and enhancing of documents, illustrations, and photographs when necessary.
- Creating digital proofs for clients on time to meet strict deadlines.
- Reviewing and implementing clients’ changes.
Skills/Qualifications:
This position is full-time, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Monday-Friday. We provide a fast-paced, yet positive work environment, health benefits, 401k and compensation commensurate with abilities.
We are seeking new members for our design team who are reliable and self-motivated with a strong work ethic. You must also be detail-oriented with top-notch problem solving, time management and organizational skills. It is also important for you to have strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work well with other team members in multiple departments throughout the company.
This is not a remote position; it requires excellent attendance in our Twinsburg, Ohio office.
Familiarity with book layout, basic design, and Adobe Acrobat is beneficial.
About Us:
48 Hour Books wants to help authors achieve their dreams of self-publishing. Supporting publishers and self-publishers is important to us, and our team is here to help throughout the entire process. We're proud of our amazing quality - we print professional, bookstore-quality books. Our high-speed digital presses and two locations (Ohio and Nevada) mean we can ship to nearly anywhere in the U.S. within two days. We do hardcover (case bound), perfect bound (soft cover), plastic coil bound and saddle stitch binding. Our customer support is the hallmark of the company.
Why Work Here?
- Easygoing management
- Lots of freedom
- Compensation commensurate with abilities
- Stable, growing company who values their employees
- Good benefits:
- Health, vision and dental insurance available
- 401k plan available
- Paid time off
Industry: Business, Printing
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $16.00 - $20.00 per hour
Expected hours: No less than 40 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
Salary : $16 - $20