Lippmann Printing located in Maryland Heights, MO is a digital printing company that is 100% wholesale to the trade. Due to our expanding business, we have a current opening for a prepress/order entry specialist to assist in taking care of our nationwide customer's needs.
Job Description / Responsibilities
- Serve as a liaison and point of contact to enter customer orders, review job requirements and provide customer consultation as required.
- Graphics experience is required as the ideal candidate will be determining pay layout, accounting for folds, trims and bleeds, adding crop marks to print files and send proofs as needed.
- Identify problems with supplied art files and communicate them to the customer.
- Package and preflight files
- Prepare final electronic press ready files and upload files to the Fiery for print production.
- Provide customer service to print distributors regarding quotations, orders, production and graphic requirements. This also includes assisting customer needs, suggesting alternatives, problem solving and solving customer issues in a fair and consistent manner.
- Use the quote provided to the customer to create an order.
- Order paper stock and other related materials according to job requirements.
- Proceed alone or as a team on assigned projects until final completion.
Job Requirements
- Motivated individual with previous experience in printing as a customer service representative, order entry specialist, prepress specialist or similar position in the printing industry with working knowledge of print shop production.
- Must have the ability to work by oneself or as a team in a fast paced environment and have the ability to prioritize work, meet aggressive deadlines and juggle multiple priorities.
- The ideal candidate must also be extremely accurate, detail oriented, organized, with strong interpersonal skills along with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Must be able to work with various graphic design and layout software applications.
- Good understanding of digital file formats (pdf, tiff, eps)
- Good typing / keyboard skills, excellent math skills and working knowledge of common computer software.
- Existing knowledge of online or estimating software a plus.
Qualifications
Exceptional communication skills a must! (verbal, written and visual)
Graphic Design skills, minimum 1 year experience using Adobe Creative Suites (Required)
Proficient in retrieving and managing artwork files in Macintosh operating system
Digital print production or print distributor experience preferred
Must be detail oriented, well organized and able to thrive in a deadline driven environment
Job Type: Full-time
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Benefits offered:
- Paid time off
- Health insurance
- Other types of insurance
- Retirement benefits or accounts
- Flexible schedules
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Work environment:
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Experience:
- Graphic design: 1 year (Required)
- Prepress: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: In person