Reproduction Technician Salary

• Duplicates printed material on sensitized paper, cloth, or film according to customer specifications, using photographic equipment and handtools: reads work order and confers with supervisor to determine processes, techniques, equipment, and materials required.
• Places original on sensitized material in vacuum frame.
• Mounts camera on tripod or stand and loads prescribed type and size film in camera.
• Sets camera controls to regulate exposure time according to line density of original and type of sensitized material.
• Activates camera to expose sensitized material, imprinting original on material.
• Develops exposed material developer (photofinishing).
• Examines developed reprint for defects, such as broken lines, spots, and blurs, and touches up defects, using chemicals, inks, brushes, and pens.
• May enlarge reprints projection printer (photofinishing).
• May reprint original in sections and piece sections together.

Reproduction Technician Job Prevalence in the United States

Job family: Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators

Job family population: 16,680

Estimated population of Reproduction Technician jobs: 1,527

Rate of error: 4.7%