A professional who tends machine that dissolves and wipes defective printing from shotgun shells and reprints them with load information. Responsibilities include:

• Pours shells from salvage boxes into deprinting (washing) machine hopper.
• Inserts felt wipers in wiping wells and shell-holding bushings in feed dial to accommodate gauge shell to be run.
• Fills solvent and ink reservoirs.
• Pastes strip of rubber type of specified load data around roller and inserts roller in reprinting machine holder.
• Starts hopper paddle, drying fan, and deprinting and reprinting mechanisms, and observes machine action for jams.
• Removes jammed shells, using fingers or wire pick.
• Examines shells for clarity of print and repositions type strip on roller to center printing on shells.