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A professional who sets up and operates cylinder or platen press that prints labels, slogans, trademarks, or trade names onto hat lining material. Responsibilities include:
* Inks disk and rollers of press, using brush or sponge.
* Tightens or loosens inking rollers, using wrench, and regulates flow of ink from reservoir.
* Arranges type or engraving blocks in chase (holder) according to specifications.
* Turns setscrews on chase to secure type or engraving, using wrench.
* Slides chase into channel on bed of press and turns setscrews to lock chase in die plate.
* Positions lining material against adjustable guides and turns handwheel to align material.
* Starts press or turns handwheel to print sample of cut or type.
* Examines impressions on material for alignment and clarity.
* Starts press and feeds and removes lining material by hand or monitors automatic feed to prevent jamming.
* May operate several presses to print variety of colors or part of total design onto lining material.
* May operate platen press equipped with heated die block to imprint data, using goldleaf.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates cylinder or platen press that prints labels, slogans, trademarks, or trade names onto hat lining material. Responsibilities include:
* Inks disk and rollers of press, using brush or sponge.
* Tightens or loosens inking rollers, using wrench, and regulates flow of ink from reservoir.
* Arranges type or engraving blocks in chase (holder) according to specifications.
* Turns setscrews on chase to secure type or engraving, using wrench.
* Slides chase into channel on bed of press and turns setscrews to lock chase in die plate.
* Positions lining material against adjustable guides and turns handwheel to align material.
* Starts press or turns handwheel to print sample of cut or type.
* Examines impressions on material for alignment and clarity.
* Starts press and feeds and removes lining material by hand or monitors automatic feed to prevent jamming.
* May operate several presses to print variety of colors or part of total design onto lining material.
* May operate platen press equipped with heated die block to imprint data, using goldleaf.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends rotary printing press that prints data, such as brand name, trademark, content analysis, and weight on paper or textile bags. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts specified type into plates or selects previously prepared plates, according to data to be printed on bags, and slides plates into channels or slots on cylinder.
* Turns setscrews or uses wrench to lock plates onto printing cylinder.
* Pours specified color ink into ink reservoir.
* Positions supply of bags on press feed bed.
* Presses button to start press and moves lever or depresses pedal to activate rotary drum and feed mechanism, and feeds individual bags into press.
* Removes printed bags from discharge shelf of press and stacks bags in storage area according to data printed on bags.
* Cleans press, using solvent and rags.
* May tend press that prints two or more colors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends cylinder press that prints designs and lettering on balloons. Responsibilities include:
* Rolls preinflated balloon against printing plate on revolving cylinder press that prints design.
* Pours ink and solvent in trough of cylinder press and adjusts ink flow.
* Cleans machine rollers, plates, and troughs with solvent and rag when color changes are specified.
* May inflate balloon on air nozzle, align and press one or more inked block dies against balloon, deflate balloon, and place balloon in box.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends manually controlled offset press that prints lettering on products, such as dial faces and plastic containers. Responsibilities include:
* Rolls machine carriage, equipped with pair of clean and inked cylinders, back and forth over press bed to ink engraved plates or dies and transfer impression to clean cylinder.
* Positions dial faces or containers in holders in front of engraved plates.
* Pulls carriage forward so that letters are impressed on clean cylinder and transferred to surface of product.
* Inspects product for smears, stains, uniform shading, and contrast.
* Places product on tray and places tray into oven to dry printing ink, or places product on conveyor leading to drying oven.
* Prints flexible containers on press equipped with airhose; forces air into container with hose to produce solid surface for printing.
* Periodically washes cylinders with solvent.
* Spreads ink on cleaned cylinder with spatula.
* May clean smears and spots from rejects with solvent and reprint them.
* May change ink, rollers, and die cut to print more than one color.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends manually controlled offset press that prints lettering on products, such as dial faces and plastic containers. Responsibilities include:
* Rolls machine carriage, equipped with pair of clean and inked cylinders, back and forth over press bed to ink engraved plates or dies and transfer impression to clean cylinder.
* Positions dial faces or containers in holders in front of engraved plates.
* Pulls carriage forward so that letters are impressed on clean cylinder and transferred to surface of product.
* Inspects product for smears, stains, uniform shading, and contrast.
* Places product on tray and places tray into oven to dry printing ink, or places product on conveyor leading to drying oven.
* Prints flexible containers on press equipped with airhose; forces air into container with hose to produce solid surface for printing.
* Periodically washes cylinders with solvent.
* Spreads ink on cleaned cylinder with spatula.
* May clean smears and spots from rejects with solvent and reprint them.
* May change ink, rollers, and die cut to print more than one color.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends platen press that prints information onto material, such as paper or cloth, using either of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Places stack of paper in feed tray of automatic feeding mechanism, adjusting height of tray according to height of load.
* Adjusts guide bars and air pressure controls to regulate force of air in suction feed cups according to size and weight of paper.
* Starts press and observes feeding operation.
* Removes printed sheets from discharge tray.
* (2) Places piece of cloth or paper against gauge pins on press platen while press head is in upper position.
* Removes and scans printed material for conformance to standards and inserts new piece after press head descends and returns to upper position.
* May ink rollers of machine, using putty knife.
* May be designated according to material printed as cloth printer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to assist offset-press operator i to make ready, operate, and maintain sheet-fed or web offset printing press. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts packing sheets on plate cylinder to build up plate to printing height, fastens reinforcing bars to offset blankets, and installs plates and blankets on press cylinders, using handtools and power tools, to achieve pressure required for printing.
* Adjusts press machine parts, such as feeder and delivery mechanisms, suction grippers, guides, feed wheels, jogging device, tapes, and cams, as directed by offset-press operator i, using handtools.
* Positions skid of unprinted sheets on feed device of sheet-fed press, using handtruck or electric lift-truck, or lifts and positions roll of paper in feed mechanism of web press, using chain hoist.
* Fills ink and dampening solution fountains of press.
* Observes press operation to detect machine malfunctions and examines printed copy for ink density, position on paper, and registration, and adjusts press or notifies offset-press operator i when malfunction occurs.
* Removes loaded skid of printed material from stacking mechanism, using handtruck, and replaces loaded skid with empty skid.
* Assists offset-press operator i to remove and replace worn rollers and adjust pressure between rollers of press, using handtools.
* Washes press and cleans ink and ink distributing rollers and ink fountains, using ink solvent and cleaning mechanism on press.
* Keeps daily time, production, and material usage reports.
* May lead, give directions to, and monitor work of feeder; jogger; or roll tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds blank or partly printed sheets into cylinder press by hand or stacks paper in automatic feeding device. Responsibilities include:
* Places pile of paper on feedboard of press and starts press.
* Lifts and feeds single sheets against feed guides at each rotation of cylinder to manually feed press; or turns setscrews to set side guide, suction feed grippers, and feeding wheels, and stacks paper in elevator of automatically fed press.
* Removes and stacks printed sheets from discharge board.
* May assist cylinder-press operator in making press ready.
* May be designated according to type of cylinder press fed as lithographic-press feeder; pony-cylinder-press feeder.
* May record production as indicated by counter on machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes, flexes, jogs, and stacks printed sheets or folded signatures from discharge unit of web printing press. Responsibilities include:
* Removes folded signatures from web press and places signatures on pallet or skid for removal to other area.
* Removes printed sheets from automatic stacking mechanism of web press, flexes stack of sheets between hands and taps stack into alignment, using hands and fingers, or places stack on vibrating jogging table and guides stack into precise alignment, and places stack on pallet or skid for removal.
* May adjust stacking mechanism on press according to paper dimensions.
* May load and remove rolls of paper on press.
* May operate mechanical truck to remove paper from press.
* May clean press and press components to maintain web printing press in working order.
Industry:Professional careers
