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.