Electronic pagination system operators are crucial to the production of printed, paper-and-ink materials. In fact, while many traditional 'pre-press' printing jobs are disappearing, this job is among the top ten fastest growing occupations not requiring a college degree.

Thanks to desktop publishing software, writers, advertising and public relation agencies, and others who want to produce printed material now submit their text as computer files. But a human being is still needed to review and filter those files, insert illustrations, and select the type styles to be used for the printed pages.

That's what electronic pagination system operators do. They bring all the electronic elements together, apply their design skills, and spend the finished file to the printing plant. Computers may have eliminated many printing jobs, but they have also created the need for electronic pagination systems operators and made them absolutely essential to the publishing industry.