A professional who tends manually controlled offset press that prints lettering on products, such as dial faces and plastic containers. Responsibilities include:

• Rolls machine carriage, equipped with pair of clean and inked cylinders, back and forth over press bed to ink engraved plates or dies and transfer impression to clean cylinder.
• Positions dial faces or containers in holders in front of engraved plates.
• Pulls carriage forward so that letters are impressed on clean cylinder and transferred to surface of product.
• Inspects product for smears, stains, uniform shading, and contrast.
• Places product on tray and places tray into oven to dry printing ink, or places product on conveyor leading to drying oven.
• Prints flexible containers on press equipped with airhose; forces air into container with hose to produce solid surface for printing.
• Periodically washes cylinders with solvent.
• Spreads ink on cleaned cylinder with spatula.
• May clean smears and spots from rejects with solvent and reprint them.
• May change ink, rollers, and die cut to print more than one color.