Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a lithographer can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a lithographer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Lithographers make and prepare metal plates to be used as the original in various printing processes and media. Plates are usually laser-etched from digital sources with computer-to-plate technology, but can also be made by applying types of emulsions to the printing plate.

Also known as metal lithographer, computer-to-plate technician, platesetter specialist, CT technician, master printer/lithography, CTP worker, lithographic printer, platesetter technician, lithographer and digital printer, computer-to-plate operator, CTP specialist, certified master lithographer.

Craft and related trades workers 43 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: prepress technician, 44%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
prepress technician 44% covered offset printer 42% covered digital printer 40% covered flexographic press operator 38% covered gravure press operator 36% covered lithographer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from lithographer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a lithographer already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A lithographer needs 21 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • photoengraving arts and humanities
  • ink printing plates working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • operate laser plate maker machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • scale copies working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • offset printing arts and humanities
  • prepare films for printing plates working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • print stripping arts and humanities
  • read job ticket instructions communication, collaboration and creativity
  • set scanner controls working with computers
  • screen printing inks arts and humanities
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a lithographer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Lithographer is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a lithographer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.