Production Graphic Designer & Prepress Specialist - On-Site

CutPrintShip; Rocklin (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

CutPrintShip is seeking an experienced Production Graphic Designer & Prepress Specialist to join our growing team. This role focuses on graphic design, production artwork, prepress, file preparation, and RIP setup.

The candidate should understand how artwork must be prepared for professional printing and manufacturing, handling customer files from concept to production-ready output with attention to spot colors, white ink, and specialty print layers.

Qualifications

• Advanced Adobe Illustrator skills and strong Adobe Photoshop skills.
• Professional graphic design, production design, prepress, or print-production experience.
• Strong understanding of spot colors and spot channels.
• Experience creating white-ink layers, masks, specialty print layers, and production-ready artwork.
• Knowledge of vector and raster artwork, resolution, bleed, color modes, transparency, overprint, fonts, and file formats.
• Ability to create accurate, machine-ready files.
• Experience with RIP software or professional RIP-based print workflows.
• Strong visual judgment and attention to color, alignment, and detail.
• Ability to troubleshoot artwork and prepress problems.
• Strong organization, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple jobs, revisions, deadlines, and changing priorities.
• Comfortable working in both a design environment and an active production setting.

Responsibilities

• Create original designs and production artwork from customer instructions, sketches, samples, reference images, and supplied files.
• Edit, clean up, rebuild, vectorize, resize, and color-correct artwork in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
• Prepare accurate production files using correct dimensions, scale, resolution, bleed, safe areas, color modes, and tolerances.
• Create and manage spot colors, spot channels, masks, white-ink layers, varnish layers, primer layers, overprint settings, and specialty print configurations.
• Preflight customer artwork before production.
• Identify artwork that may not produce an acceptable finished product and address concerns before production.
• Import, process, preview, and queue jobs using RIP software.

Skills

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Graphic design

Prepress

Color management

Troubleshooting

Organization

Tools

RIP software

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Actions

Job description

CutPrintShip is seeking an experienced Production Graphic Designer & Prepress Specialist to join our growing team. This role focuses on graphic design, production artwork, prepress, file preparation, and RIP setup.

The candidate should understand how artwork must be prepared for professional printing and manufacturing, handling customer files from concept to production-ready output with attention to spot colors, white ink, and specialty print layers.