A professional who sets up and operates machine to emboss designs on paper and plastics-coated textile and cut materials according to work orders. Responsibilities include:

• Positions material and pressure and engraved embossing rolls on machine frame, using hoist.
• Installs and adjusts cutting disks and fastens collars on shafts to secure rolls, using rule, wrench, and screwdriver.
• Threads material through rolls and around cutters, adjusts feed guides, and starts machine.
• Turns air valve to regulate pressure of pressing roll on embossing roll and turns handwheel to adjust tension on material.
• Observes feeding, embossing, and cutting of material, and makes adjustments.
• Scrapes dirt from pressing roll and cleans it with solvent.
• May adjust counterweight device or move lever or clutch to regulate pressure on rolls.
• May regulate flow of steam into rolls to counteract paper curling and to obtain desired depth of embossing and surface shine on paper.
• May tend winding machine to wind material onto rolls.
• May emboss paper between tinted rollers.
• May feed paper sheets into machine and be designated sheeter operator.