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A professional who feeds or off bears machines that automatically perform one or more operations to fold and cut printed sheets into signatures, assemble or gather sheets in specified sequence, or wire stitch or glue sheets to form books, magazines, catalogs, and pamphlets. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts stacks of sheets, pages, covers, or inserts from supply pallet and jogs stack on machine table to align edges.
* Flexes stack to ensure sheets are in specified order, following sample, or to admit air between sheets to facilitate suction-cup pickup.
* Places stacks into specified hoppers, pockets, or against guides on feed conveyor and replenishes stacks as needed.
* Observes feeding and pickup mechanisms to detect defective pages and removes defective pages from machine.
* Removes signatures, paperbound books, magazines, catalogs, or pamphlets from discharge conveyor.
* Observes discharge mechanism and notifies machine operator or machine setter of jams and excessive defective publications.
* Places defective publications aside to be salvaged or discarded.
* May thread wire from feed spool into stitching machine to load stitcher head.
* May push button to stop machine in case of jams.
* May count specified number of publications and tie them into bundles or place publications on strapping machine that wraps and seals reinforcing plastic bands around them.
* May keep daily production records.
* May be designated according to machine function as folding-machine feeder; gathering-machine feeder; perfect-binder feeder-offbearer; saddle-stitching-machine feeder-offbearer; side-stitching-machine feeder-offbearer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines gathered book, magazine, and pamphlet bodies to verify order and number of included signatures. Responsibilities include:
* Riffles bodies, one section at a time, observing signature figures.
* Notes omitted, misplaced, or duplicated signatures, and rearranges or inserts sections to correct subject matter.
* Stacks completed bodies.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with casting and assembling type into equipped form for printing by means of machines that select, cast, cool, and assemble type on sticks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to cast lines of type. Responsibilities include:
* Sets up matrices in assembly stick by hand, according to copy for which slugs are to be made.
* Locks assembly stick containing matrices in groove on top of machine.
* Starts machine and monitors operation while metal slugs bearing printed characters corresponding to characters on matrices are automatically produced.
* Removes assembly stick after slugs are made and distributes matrices and slugs in compartments of cases used for storing them until use.
* May be known by trade name of machine used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines metal matrices (dies) for defects which are discernible with naked eye.
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A professional who separates pieces of type after they are removed from type molds.
* Cleans type and removes burrs, using file.
* May separate type according to specified quantity of each character and size and face of type.
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A professional who this group includes occupations, not elsewhere classified, concerned with producing copies of designs or lettering by transferring ink or pigment to paper or other material.
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A professional who sets up and operates power cutting tools to trim electrotype or stereotype plates and mounts them on wood or metal blocks, according to specifications, for use in printing press. Responsibilities include:
* Operates metal cutting tools, such as saws, plate milling machine, shaving machine, and radial or straight line routing machine, to remove surplus backing from plate, shave and smooth plates to specified thickness, cut out metal from nonprinting areas, and cut plates to size, and bevel edges.
* Sets plate on surface plate and taps with hammer and block to flatten plate.
* Rubs face of plate with finisher's rubber or magnesia to determine low and high spots.
* Taps low spots with punches and hammer to raise and level them to printing height.
* Operates plate curving machine (slip roll forming machine) that curves plates to fit plate cylinder of rotary printing press.
* Examines plates with magnifier or microscope to detect flaws in halftone dots and lines and raises, lowers, or repairs imperfections with engraver's handtools.
* Mounts finished plates on wood or metal blocks, using hammer and nails or thermoplastic adhesive and heat press.
* May operate hand or power single color proof press to print proof of plate, observing printing quality of plate and conformity of image on copy.
* May modify plates for other than rotary type presses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares cylinders for installation in flexographic printing press according to specifications and diagrams. Responsibilities include:
* Measures and cuts brass plate of specified dimensions, using rule and blade-shearer, and bends plate to fit curvature of cylinder, using plate curver.
* Lifts and places printing cylinder of specified size on proof machine holding-rack.
* Measures and draws centering lines on cylinder to be used as guides for alignment of plate and dies.
* Slides formed plate on cylinder, positions plate according to centering lines, and clamps plate in place with tension bands.
* Trims and bevels rough edges of rubber dies, using knife.
* Positions dies on cylinder plate, following guide markings and diagrams, and fastens dies to plate with adhesive paper.
* Applies ink to dies with roller, and operates proof machine to make trial impression on proof paper.
* Examines proof to detect typographical or compositional errors and to verify quality and registration of print.
* Measures thickness of mount with micrometer to verify tolerance.
* Rejects defective dies and remounts or repositions dies to correct errors in original setup until trial impression meets quality standards.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who reviews incoming orders for completeness of customer's instructions and discusses order with customer. Responsibilities include:
* Contacts customer by phone or visit to obtain instructions or make suggestions for production of duplicate printing plates.
* Discusses variations in materials supplied, problems, and delays that arise during production.
* Verifies condition of plates in stock.
* Makes black and white proofs of each plate, using proof press, and compares proof with customer's copy and instructions.
* Inspects outgoing work for compliance with customer's specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
