A professional who sets up and operates machines to roll and press-forge characters onto steel blanks to form typewriter type. Respnsibilities include:

• Installs and aligns roller jaws, and blank-holding, letter-forming, and trimming dies, using handtools.
• Fills hopper with blanks and starts machine.
• Measures type samples for centrality, curvature, and height of characters, using fixture gauge, eye loupe, and shadowgraph or calibrated microscope.
• Compares measurements against type on chart and turns setscrews and shims tooling to align dies and type that conform to specifications.
• May hand feed machine by positioning blank in holding die in rotating table.
• May pry rolled type from holding die, using knife.