A professional who performs variety of duties to assist automatic screen-printing machine operator in printing multicolored patterns on textiles. Responsibilities include:

• Turns thumbscrews and loosens and tightens bolts, using wrench, to remove, replace, adjust, or align screens in bed of screen printing machine as instructed by machine operator.
• Pushes new roll of cloth into feed brackets and aligns end of new cloth with end of cloth in machine and sews ends together, using portable sewing machine.
• Carries stacks of cloth articles, such as towels, washcloths, and bathmats from storage boxes, and stacks articles on shelf for use by workers feeding machine that prints precut cloth articles.
• Observes operation of printing machine to detect flaws in printing, such as blurs, smears, and color out of register (alignment), and reports problem detected to machine operator.
• Pours printing paste onto screen as required.
• Loads and unloads handtrucks, and trucks printing screens and drums of printing paste to and from storage areas.