A professional who sets up and operates machine to stamp designs on pottery and porcelain flatware. Responsibilities include:

• Clamps ware mold in machine.
• Observes gauges and moves levers to adjust machine pressure, according to size of ware and pattern to be stamped on ware.
• Aligns design stamp on bed or head of machine and adjusts guide bars.
• Stirs premixed ink on pallet and applies ink on stamp with inking pad or fills reservoir of mechanical inking device with color glaze.
• Positions and clamps ware in head of press, places ware in holding device of stamp fixture, or positions ware over vacuum holding device on bed of press.
• Positions stamp for transferring design onto ware, using guide bars.
• Depresses pedal to lower head of press and stamp design on ware.
• Removes ware from bed of machine.
• Inspects design and discards ware with defective printing.
• Rubs ware with abrasive stone to remove ink spots or excess glaze.