Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

• Entering, storing, and retrieving information on computer aided equipment.
• Entering, positioning, and altering text size, using computers, for making up and arranging pages so that printed materials can be produced.
• Maintaining, adjusting, and cleaning equipment, and performing minor repairs.
• Operating and maintaining laser plate making equipment that converts electronic data to plates without the using of film.
• Examining photographic images for obvious imperfections prior to plate making.
• Operating presses for printing proofs of plates, monitoring printing quality for ensuring that it is adequate.
• Examining finished plates for detecting flaws, verifying conformity with master plates, and measuring dot sizes and centers, using light boxes and microscopes.
• Performing exact alignment or registration of double and single flats to sensitized plates prior to exposure for producing composite images.
• Inspecting developed film for specified results and quality, using magnifying glasses and scopes, forwarding acceptable negatives or positives to other workers or to customers.