Printing and Publishing

BINDERY WORKER

Job Definition: Job Description: Set up or operate binding machines that produce books and other printed materials. Duties and Tasks: 1) Crease or compress signatures before affixing covers; then place paper jackets on finished books. 2) Examine stitched, collated, bound, and unbound product samples for defects such as imperfect bindings, ink spots, torn or loose

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SCANNER OPERATOR

Job Definition: Technicians and associate professionals perform technical and related tasks connected with research and the application of scientific or artistic concepts and operational methods, and government or business regulations. Competent performance in most occupations in this major group requires skills at the third ISCO skill level.b Job Description: Operate electronic or computerized scanning equipment

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PASTE-UP WORKER

Job Definition: Pre-press technicians proof, format, set and compose text and graphics into a form suitable for use in various printing processes and representation in other visual media. Job Description: Arrange and mount typeset material and illustrations into pasteup for printing reproduction, based on artist’s or editor’s layout. Duties and Tasks: 1) Measures and marks

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JOB PRINTER

Job Definition: Printers set up and operate digital, letterpress, lithographic, flexographic, gravure, newspaper and other printing presses. Job Description: Set type according to copy; operate press to print job order; and read proof for errors and clarity of impression, and correct imperfections. Job printers are often found in small establishments where work combines several job

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HAND COMPOSITOR AND TYPESETTER

Job Definition: Pre-press technicians proof, format, set and compose text and graphics into a form suitable for use in various printing processes and representation in other visual media. Job Description: Set up and arrange type by hand. Assemble and lock setup of type, cuts, and headings. Pull proofs. Duties and Tasks: 1) Inserts spacers between

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AUDIT-MACHINE OPERATOR

Job Description: 1) Adds sales slips or register tapes, using electrically powered auditing machine. 2) Computes subtotals for individual sales departments and types of sales, such as cash, charge, installment, and will-call. 3) Verifies daily or periodic balances against predetermined figures.

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