NOC 2021 · 94151 · TEER 4
Camera, platemaking and other prepress occupations
Unit group 94151 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Camera and platemaking workers operate graphic arts cameras and scanners, assemble film and negatives and prepare, engrave and etch printing plates or cylinders for various types of printing presses. They are employed in firms that specialize in colour graphics or platemaking and cylinder preparation, commercial publishing and printing companies, newspapers, magazines, and in various establishments in the public and private sectors that have in-house printing departments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- alignment examiner - printing
- assistant newspaper make-up man/woman
- automated letterer-engraver
- bright type processor
- camera operator - graphic arts
- camera operator - printing
- carbon tissue cylinder preparer - printing
- clamper - camera and platemaking
- colour correction scanning machine operator
- colour edition preparer - printing
- colour printer-technician - photographic processing
- colour scanner operator - printing
- colour separation assistant - scanning
- colour separation camera operator
- colour separation camera operator - printing
- colour separation electronic scanning machine operator
- colour separation operator
- colour-editing terminal operator - printing
- computer-assisted letterer-engraver
- contact printer
- copper engraver - camera and platemaking
- copper photoengraver
- copperplate photoengraver
- cylinder painter - printing
- cylinder preparer - printing
- cylinder-impresser operator
- digital printing technician
- dot etcher
- dot etcher - printing
- electronic engraver
- electronic prepress technician
- electroplating tank tender
- electrostatic camera operator
- electrotyper - printing
- electrotyper and platemaker
- engraver, printing cylinders
- engraver-letterer
- engraver-transferrer
- etcher - printing
- etching corrector
- file preparation operator
- film assembler
- film sizer
- film stripper
- film stripper and layout specialist - printing
- film stripper specialist - printing
- film stripper-assembler
- film stripper-assembler - printing
- flexible plate engraver
- flexible printing plate mounter
- flexible-plate hand engraver
- flexographic mounter-proofer
- flexographic printing cylinder assembler
- graphic arts camera operator
- gravure printer - prepress
- halftone camera operator - printing
- image processing operator
- image reproduction machine operator
- image setter operator
- image-processing system operator
- laser beam colour scanner operator
- lineup examiner - printing
- lithographic plate preparer
- lithographic platemaker
- monochrome plate film stripper
- negative merger
- negative spotter - printing
- offset plate preparer
- offset platemaker
- offset printing plate preparer
- opticopy keypunch operator - printing
- opticopy machine operator - printing
- opticopy offline programmer - printing
- opticopy program tape preparer - printing
- pantograph setter
- pantographer - printing
- paper-plate maker
- photoengraver - printing
- photoengraving etcher - printing
- photoengraving finisher
- photoengraving platemaker
- photoengraving retoucher - printing
- photogravure camera operator - printing
- photopolymer platemaker
- picture engraver - printing
- plate finisher - printing
- plate grainer - printing
- plate processor - printing
- plate processor operator - printing
- plate-graining machine tender
- platemaker
- platemaker - printing
- platemaking etcher
- pre-flight operator - printing
- prepress technician
- preprint-coating machine tender
- print roller repairer
- print transferrer - printing
- printing cylinder engraver
- printing plate engraver
- printing plate moulder
- printing plate presensitizer tender
- process camera operator
- processor - printing
- proofmaker
- proofmaker - printing
- roller engraver - printing
- rotogravure cylinder technician
- rotogravure press technician
- scanner operator - printing
- screenmaker
- siderographer - printing
- silkscreen assembler - printing
- stager - printing
- stencil preparer
- step and repeat camera operator
- stereotyper
- stripper - printing
- stripper-image assembler - printing
- stripper-layout specialist - printing
- studio-image-processing system operator
- template engraver
- tracer-transferrer
- transferrer
What it pays, and where it is hiring
Job Bank publishes a wage estimate and a three-year employment outlook for each occupation, region by region. Both are below as published — where an estimate is missing from the source it is missing here too, because the alternative is inventing one.
Across Canada
$25.85 an hour
Low $20.03, high $38.09
Where it pays most
- Toronto · Ontario$29.43
- Winnipeg · Manitoba$29.18
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$28.81
- Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula · Ontario$28.21
- Calgary · Alberta$28.14
Economic regions only. A province’s figure is an average over the regions inside it, so including one would rank a province above its own best region and read as a finding.
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $25.55 | $21.00 – $31.69 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $23.60 | $19.53 – $31.94 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $28.98 | $20.93 – $37.95 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $28.14 | $21.78 – $33.81 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | $23.24 | $20.00 – $27.31 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $27.44 | $20.53 – $38.44 | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $28.04 | $22.89 – $37.12 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 16 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $25.89 | $21.28 – $28.33 | Undetermined |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $26.78 | $23.91 – $30.95 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $24.20 | $20.77 – $29.21 | Undetermined |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $25.32 | $21.40 – $32.53 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $23.09 | $19.54 – $31.92 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $24.18 | $19.53 – $34.99 | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | $24.34 | $21.09 – $31.08 | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $26.67 | $21.81 – $32.13 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $29.43 | $22.22 – $38.27 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $27.84 | $21.19 – $33.74 | Undetermined |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $28.21 | $21.82 – $34.56 | Undetermined |
| London | Ontario | $26.64 | $22.59 – $31.55 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $29.18 | $23.15 – $34.28 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $28.14 | $22.66 – $39.62 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $25.87 | $22.69 – $35.17 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $28.81 | $22.57 – $36.32 | Undetermined |
Job Bank rates employment prospects for each occupation in each economic region from very good to very limited over 2025–2027, and says “undetermined” where it has not got enough to rate. It is an assessment of prospects, not a count of vacancies.
The estimates on this page come from Small Area Estimation (2024).
Job Bank publishes an estimate for 24,364 of the 44,376 occupation-and-place pairs in this release. The rest are suppressed rather than modelled, and appear here as not published.
Wage estimates from the 2025 Wages release, revised 19 November 2025; employment outlooks from 2025-2027 Employment Outlooks - NOC 2021, released 8 December 2025. Both are updated annually. Estimates for different regions come from different surveys, so comparing two regions is exactly as sound as Job Bank’s own regional comparison and no more.
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wages; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank 3-year employment outlooks. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.