Miguel Ramos: PrePress Operator in Los Angeles, CA

Prepress Operator: Preflighting customer supplied files, Preparing and Creating Final Input PDF Files for Print, Refining Thru Prinergy Auto Rip to Create Output Files and Archiving as needed.

10/04 –1/08 Insync Media Inglewood, CA Digital Prepress Operator Creo Scitex/Lotem (Direct to Plate) System and Kodak Prinergy Connect Workflow System. Responsibilities: Lead Experience Preflighting: Loading Customer Files, Organizing Files in Job Folders, Creating Font Suitcases, Run files Through Flight Check • Page Assembly: Using QuarkXpress 7 and Indesign CS5 • Photoshop CS5, and Illustrator CS5, To check against customer supplied lasers for Correct Specs, Trapping, Making modifications if necessary, Writing Postscript and/or Final PDF Files Ready for Print. • Building Page Ads to make DCS2 and PDF files for Uploads • Imposing: Using Creo Preps 5 Application to Create Templates for Signature Runs and to Impose Postscript files and/or Refine Pages as well as Gang Run Combo. • Ripping, Trapping, and Writing Postscript in Creo/Scitex Brisque5 and Exporting PDFs to Prinergy Connect Workflow System • Outputting Imposed Color Proofs using Iris 43wide, Kodak Approvals and Epson Proofs

4/02 –9/05 Chromatic Lithographers Glendale, CA Digital Prepress Operator Creo Scitex/Lotem (Direct to Plate) System Responsibilities: Preflighting: Loading Customer Files, Organizing Files in Job Folders, Creating Font Suitcases, Run Files through Flight Check, Scanning Images provided by clients. • Page Assembly: Using QuarkXpress 5 .0/6.0 and 3.32/4.02, • Pagemaker 7.0/6.0/6.5, Photoshop 8.0/7.0/ 6.0, and Illustrator 10 To check against Customer supplied lasers for correct specs, trapping, making modifications if necessary, and Writing Postscript • Imposing: Using Preps 4.2 Application to create templates and to impose (Digital Stripping) Postscript files. • Ripping, Trapping, and writing Postscript in Scitex Brisque 4 Equipment. • Output Imposed Color Proofs using Iris 43wide and Iris Matchprints , and Veris Proofs • Output Plates on Scitex Lotem 800v Imagesetter