A professional who tends strike-off machine that prints cloth with samples of color paste for comparison with color standards prior to production printing. Responsibilities include:

• Tapes piece of white cloth on printing drum.
• Places moist cloth pads between engraved strikes (depressions) on printing roller to separate colors being printed.
• Pours color sample on engraved strikes of roller.
• Starts strike-off machine to print impression on cloth.
• Removes printed sample from machine and places cloth in steam press to dry or places cloth in aging machine to develop and fix color.
• Trims sample, using scissors.
• Marks identification number on sample and records sample identification data.
• Washes strike-off roller and doctor, using brush or rag and water.
• May tend single-roller printing machine that prints cloth samples for use by laboratory.