DTP Operator & Book Designer

Tesla Book Company / Gayatri Books · Agra, UP · Full-time, in office

Role

Lay out and typeset our K–8 textbooks and workbooks (Hindi, English, Maths, Science, Social Studies, GK) from manuscript to print-ready file — page design, composition, corrections and final press handoff.

Responsibilities
Typeset full books from editorial manuscripts: chapter openers, unit theme pages, exercises, activity boxes, tables and answer keys
Design page layouts, grids and master pages; maintain a consistent look across a series (Nursery–Class 8)
Place and size illustrations, photographs and diagrams; coordinate with the illustration team on gaps and reworks
Compose Hindi and English text with correct Devanagari rendering, hyphenation, matra spacing and line-breaking
Incorporate proofreader corrections across multiple proof rounds; keep clean version control of each stage
Prepare press-ready output: CMYK conversion, bleed and trim marks, colour separations, imposition, PDF/X export
Design covers, spines and back matter; prepare title-wise cover files for print
Coordinate with the press on plate-making queries, paper sizes,



forms and proofs
Supply page files/assets for flipbook and digital conversion

Required
3 years DTP/book design experience in a publishing house or press
CorelDRAW, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator; PageMaker/QuarkXPress an advantage
Solid command of Hindi and English typesetting; legacy Devanagari font handling (Kruti Dev, Chanakya, Shusha) and Unicode conversion
Sound understanding of prepress: colour modes, resolution, bleeds, imposition, printing constraints
Accuracy under deadline pressure and comfort handling long, repetitive correction cycles

Preferred
Familiarity with NCERT/NCF-aligned school textbook structure
Cover design and packaging sense for the school market
Basic scripting/batch processing for repetitive layout tasks

Job Type: Full time

Pay: ₹18,000.00 - ₹30,000.00 per month

Education
Diploma (Preferred)

Experience:
total work: 1 year (Preferred)
Design: 1 year (Preferred)
CorelDraw: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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