A professional who sets up and operates press to emboss paper stock, such as labels or stationery. Responsibilities include:

• Installs and locks embossed plate in chase and locks chase in bed of press.
• Mixes embossing composition to puttylike consistency, spreads glue on platen, and applies thin pad of composition over glue.
• Makes impression of embossing to desired depth in composition on platen, trims off excess, and allows composition to harden.
• Scrapes high spots on counter die (impressed composition) to prevent it from puncturing paper.
• Starts press, sets sheets singly in gauge pins, and embosses them, removing and stacking them as embossed.