- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in making ready, operating, and feeding various types of presses used to print newspapers, magazines, books, and other printed matter. Responsibilities include:
* Observes press operations and examines printed material to verify conformance with work order specifications.
* Examines multicolor printed material, using precision instruments, to detect imperfect color tone registration.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who makes ready and operates cylinder-type printing press. Responsibilities include:
* Verifies size, color, and type of paper and color of ink from job order.
* Cleans inking rollers with solvent and replaces them in press, using handtools.
* Adjusts controls to regulate volume of ink.
* Packs impression cylinder with tissue or folio.
* Adjusts delivery tapes, and positions and locks form (type setup or plate) on bed or cylinder of press.
* Directs cylinder-press feeder in adjustment of feed guides, grippers, and elevator, or hand-feeding press.
* Starts press and runs off proofsheet.
* Examines proof to determine off-level areas, variation in ink volume, register slippage, indications of offsetting, and color register.
* Adjusts press controls, inking fountains, and automatic feeders, and repacks cylinder with overlay to equalize off-level areas as required.
* May register forms and mix colors.
* May make overlay for half-tone shades.
* May operate cylinder press equipped with cutting attachment or may replace type dies with cutting dies to cut or shape paper or paperboard.
* May operate more than one press.
* May be designated according to kind of material printed as check imprinter; envelope-press operator i; label-press operator i; size of press as pony-cylinder-press operator.
* Important variations may be indicated by trade names of machine used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who makes ready and operates rotary-type press that prints illustrative and other subject matter by rotogravure process. Responsibilities include:
* Installs engraved copper printing cylinder in press, using handtools.
* Adjusts doctor (wiper) blade to remove excess ink from surface of printing cylinder.
* Threads web (roll) of paper or other printing stock through press, adjusting guides and tension bars.
* Sets focus of electronic scanners on guideline of paper (for multicolor printing) to automatically control color registration.
* Regulates temperature in web-drying chambers and adjusts automatic cutter at discharge end of press.
* Inspects material being printed, during production run, and adjusts press as required to produce printed matter to specifications.
* Directs workers in feeding and unloading press, replenishing ink supply in fountains, cleaning equipment, and other press operations.
* May operate press equipped to print, cut, and crease paper goods.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who makes ready and operates multiunit, web-fed rotary press to print newspapers, books, and periodicals according to written specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Locks printing plates on printing cylinder and threads loose end of paper supply roll (web) through and around rollers to cutter and folder.
* Adjusts compensators to guide paper over rollers and cylinders.
* Inspects printed sheets visually after registration or position printing and readjusts guides and controls to rectify spacing errors.
* Adjusts feed controls to rotate cylinder into position where plate locking mechanism is accessible.
* Unlocks plates and replaces with make-over plates according to directions marked on plate regarding location and time of printing.
* Rethreads paper through press if web breaks (press stops automatically if web breaks) and readjusts tension rollers.
* Operates pasting device to splice end of new paper roll to depleted roll.
* Inspects printed material visually during production and readjusts controls to correct irregular ink distribution, faulty cuts or folds.
* Replaces cutting blades, worn or damaged ink rolls, and fills ink wells.
* Cleans, inspects, and lubricates moving parts of press.
* May supervise and instruct apprentices.
* May load supply rolls of paper in press at beginning and during run.
* May be designated tension regulator when installing paper rolls in press and adjusting controls to regulate tension of paper; or color-control operator when adjusting ink controls to secure specified color registration.
* May operate press from central control console.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who makes ready and operates press to engrave decorative designs or lettering on announcements, greeting and business cards, letterheads, and related items, following operating procedures outlined on job order. Responsibilities include:
* Installs appropriate die and inking rollers on ram, using wrench.
* Cuts out and fastens paper template to bed of press to maintain flatness of finished cards or sheets.
* Inserts and adjusts roll of wiping paper that automatically cleans die between impressions.
* Thins ink to desired consistency and fills ink fountain.
* Starts press to obtain proof copy.
* Examines proof and adjusts press and ink fountain to obtain uniform indentation and color registration.
* Starts press and feeds cards or sheets to be engraved onto bed of press.
Industry:Professional careers
