Enter, store, and retrieve information on computer-aided equipment.

“Enter, store, and retrieve information on computer-aided equipment.” is a core task performed by Prepress Technicians and Workers. Among the occupation's 25 rated tasks, workers place it 20th by importance (#6 most important). About 94% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Program computer systems or production equipment. in Working with Computers

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Generate prepress proofs in digital or other format to approximate the appearance of the final printed piece. · importance 4.7
• Proofread and perform quality control of text and images. · importance 4.7
• Enter, position, and alter text size, using computers, to make up and arrange pages so that printed materials can be produced. · importance 4.6
• Perform "preflight" check of required font, graphic, text and image files to ensure completeness prior to delivery to printer. · importance 4.5
• Operate and maintain laser plate-making equipment that converts electronic data to plates without the use of film. · importance 4.5
• Operate presses to print proofs of plates, monitoring printing quality to ensure that it is adequate. · importance 4.4
• Select proper types of plates according to press run lengths. · importance 4.4
• Examine finished plates to detect flaws, verify conformity with master plates, and measure dot sizes and centers, using light boxes and microscopes. · importance 4.3
• Examine unexposed photographic plates to detect flaws or foreign particles prior to printing. · importance 4.2
• Examine photographic images for obvious imperfections prior to plate making. · importance 4.0
• Maintain, adjust, and clean equipment, and perform minor repairs. · importance 4.0
• Scale copy for reductions and enlargements, using proportion wheels. · importance 3.9
• Analyze originals to evaluate color density, gradation highlights, middle tones, and shadows, using densitometers and knowledge of light and color. · importance 3.7
• Set scanners to specific color densities, sizes, screen rulings, and exposure adjustments, using scanner keyboards or computers. · importance 3.5

See all tasks on the Prepress Technicians and Workers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-10402,
  title  = {Enter, store, and retrieve information on computer-aided equipment.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-10402}
}