Prepress Specialist: Booklet Focus & Color QC

C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions; New Berlin (WI); On-site; USD 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions is seeking a Prepress Operator in New Berlin, WI. This contract-to-hire, full-time role supports a busy production team by prepping files for offset, digital, and large format output.

You will handle impositions, color corrections, and proofing across Mac/Windows environments, with room to grow into the Structural Design area. The ideal candidate brings prepress experience, proficiency with Adobe CC, PitStop, and MS Office, and familiarity with Prinergy/Preps.

Qualifications

• Bring prepress experience in a commercial printing environment, at any skill level, with a drive to keep growing.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), PitStop, and MS Office.
• Understand offset printing and lithography, including how press and bindery operations shape prepress setup.
• Know booklet and book imposition, or the aptitude to master it early in the role.
• Know Kodak workflow tools such as Prinergy and Preps, or be ready to learn them on the job.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and preflight customer files for offset, digital, and large format production across Mac and Windows platforms
• Build impositions in Preps, with a strong focus on booklet and book layouts
• Generate press-ready PDFs through Prinergy and route each job to the correct output device
• Edit artwork and die files, applying corrections and color adjustments as requested
• Identify color problems and other file issues before jobs reach press
• Partner with Project Managers to review and implement changes, flagging discrepancies between job tickets, quotes, and supplied files
• Operate proofing and digital platemaking systems
• Produce Epson proofs and folding mockups
• Retrieve incoming files from FTP sites
• Verify all work before it leaves the department
• Cross-train with the Structural Design department, covering CAD cutting and assembly of first-off designs, plus the Iridesse digital press

Skills

Prepress experience

Adobe Creative Cloud

PDF editing

MS Office

Tools

InDesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

PitStop

Prinergy

Preps

Job description

C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions is seeking a Prepress Operator in New Berlin, WI. This contract-to-hire, full-time role supports a busy production team by prepping files for offset, digital, and large format output.

You will handle impositions, color corrections, and proofing across Mac/Windows environments, with room to grow into the Structural Design area. The ideal candidate brings prepress experience, proficiency with Adobe CC, PitStop, and MS Office, and familiarity with Prinergy/Preps.