Mid-Level

Printing Services Coordinator

At a corporate print services operation, university print center, or comparable business-services operation, you coordinate the printing operation — managing job intake, scheduling production, supporting customers, working with vendors and finishing operations, and the operational layer that print-services work depends on.

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Conventionalorganizing, detail-oriented
Realistichands-on, practical
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Job markets for Printing Services Coordinators
Employment concentration · ~97 areas
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What it's like

What it's like to be a Printing Services Coordinator

Most days revolve around job-coordination work and customer-and-vendor interactions — receiving print orders, sequencing them through production based on deadlines and equipment availability, supporting customers with questions about options or status, coordinating with external print vendors when work exceeds in-house capabilities. Job-completion rate, customer satisfaction, and on-time turnaround shape the visible measures.

The friction often lies in the deadline-and-capacity work — print services often run with cyclical demand peaks (academic-calendar pressure for university print, fiscal-cycle pressure for corporate), and coordinators manage capacity against customer commitments under tight time windows. Variance across employers is real: corporate print centers run with internal-customer focus; university and institutional print operations run with academic-calendar rhythms; commercial print operations run with broader customer scope.

The role tends to fit folks who carry organizational discipline, customer-service comfort, and the patient cross-functional persistence that print-services coordination requires. Print-services credentials and growing operational experience anchor advancement. The trade-off is the deadline-pressure dimension of print work and the steady operational pace.

SupportModerate
RelationshipsModerate
IndependenceLower
Working ConditionsLower
AchievementLower
RecognitionLower
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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.

$239K$179K$119K$60K$0KLower paying387 metro areas, sorted by salary level
All experience levels1
This level's estimated range
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1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all Printing Services Coordinators (SOC 43-9071.00), not just this title · BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$30K–$56K
Salary Range
10th – 90th percentile
25K
U.S. Employment
-15.2%
10yr Growth
3K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

$64K$61K$59K$56K$53K201920202021202220232024$53K$64K
BLS OEWS May 2024 · BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034

Skills & Requirements

Operation and ControlOperations MonitoringReading ComprehensionCritical ThinkingSpeakingJudgment and Decision MakingTime ManagementMonitoringActive ListeningWriting
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Federal data: BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (May 2024) · BLS Employment Projections · O*NET OnLine
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