Job Summary

The Pre-Press Operator is responsible for preparing, reviewing, troubleshooting, manipulating, and laying out digital files to ensure they meet all requirements for high-quality, print-ready production. Using Adobe Creative Suite and the company's in-house workflow software, this role ensures that files are accurate, properly formatted, and production-ready while maintaining established quality standards and deadlines.

The Pre-Press Operator plays an important role in the overall success of the production department and the company. This position requires strong technical skills, attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and a commitment to delivering exceptional quality and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

Pre-flight files for:

- Check resolution of images for high quality printing
- Ensure bleed, knockouts, and other parameters noted on die lines have been followed.
- Correct any discrepancies between supplied artwork and die lines.
- Re-package files

Pre-press:

- Layout artwork for various rigid and roll printing applications
- Layout artwork to create efficiencies in file processing time, consumed materials, etc.
- Layout artwork for various material sizes and thicknesses according to production schedule
- Resize/Crop/Manipulate artwork for intended output size and finishing processes of various printed applications.
- Add bleed to files for finishing considerations.
- Adjust colour and perform colour matching using RIP software, as required.
- Set ink densities for required coverage.

Qualifications:

- 3-5 years’ experience, pre-press / print production experience
- Experience using industry workflow software, ideally understanding of Agfa Asanti software. KM1e software
- Fluent with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Experience preparing,



manipulating, troubleshooting files for wide & small format printing.
- Knowledge and application of basic-intermediate colour management principles
- Experience using Artios Software, a bonus

Additional Duties:

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed. You will be expected to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as requested by your supervisor.

KPI’s for Large Format Operations:

- Job Spoilage and Errors requiring re-prints
- As it relates to errors that occur in our prepress department, we have set expectations on job saccuracy within a year. We would like to achieve a 98% success rate with orders minimizing re-prints and spoilage.

Timing

- We have set a goal and expectation that proofs will be returned to the relevant Coordinator / PM / Account team member within 24 hours of receipt of files. We would expect no less than 5% of jobs would exceed this expectation (based on workload, prioritizing etc.)

Time Tracking

- We would like to start time tracking pre-press orders to gain an understanding of approximate time spent at a project level. Additionally, ongoing time tracking will allow us to better understand if we are charging suitably for pre-press services, if there are any clients that warrant a ‘surcharge’ due to average pre-press time being longer than anticipated and to gain a better understanding of workload and throughput within our pre-press department.

This is a full-time, in office position requiring attendance at our office five days per week.

Pay: $60,000.00-$68,000.00 per year

Benefits:

- Dental care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- RRSP match
- Vision care

Experience:

- Pre-press: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person

📌 Pre-Press Operator (North York)
🏢 Godin Productions
📍 North York