- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends automatic ceramic-decorating machine that prints single or multicolored pictures or designs on cylindrical glass or plastic containers. Responsibilities include:
* Positions precut stainless steel stencils in machine and adjusts roller guides that hold container in place during printing process.
* Pours premixed paint into ink reservoir.
* Turns valves to regulate temperature of paint and to regulate flow of paint onto stencil.
* Smooths paint onto stencil, using flat-bladed knife.
* Empties cartons of containers onto conveyor that feeds them into machine automatically.
* Starts machine that rotates container under stencil and ejects printed containers on moving conveyor.
* Inspects printed containers to ensure that printing is clear and free of smudges.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends printing press that prints information, such as slogans and trademarks, on gloves. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts specified preset type in bar holder of type case, or fits rubber plates over type case.
* Spreads ink on inking roller, using putty knife.
* Positions glove or mitten on bed of machine or on conveyor, following markings or guides.
* Removes printed gloves.
* Examines printing to detect ink smears and pairs gloves according to quality of printing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends platen-press that prints designs and identifying data on leather, leatherette, or satin-covered jewelry, watch and instrument cases, and case linings.
* Cleans and lubricates press.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends keying machine that prints coded data on paper stock used to promote sale of magazines. Responsibilities include:
* Ascertains stock and code information to be used.
* Removes printing head from keying machine, inserts specified type in holder, and replaces head.
* Adjusts machine for size of stock and loads stock in paper guides on machine table.
* Starts machine that automatically prints code, and observes operation to determine whether print is legible.
* Removes processed stock from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that prints identifying information, such as brand names, size, and style onto such products as hosiery, knitted garments, or towels. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order to determine color of ink to use and information to print.
* Pushes lever to move specified stamp keys into position, attaches rubber typing plate to type holder and inserts type holder into slots of printing head, or inserts slugs in chase of printing plate and turns setscrew to lock printing plate in machine.
* Spreads ink paste on ink roller of machine or clamps tube of ink in automatic ink dispenser.
* Places article on bed of machine under printing head.
* Depresses pedal or flips switch to start machine that transfers printed information from inked plate onto article.
* Stacks printed article onto worktable.
* Cleans machine, type slugs, type plate and holder, ink plate and rollers, using cleaning solution, cloth, brush, and airhose.
* May erase misprints, using tissue paper and ink eradicator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that stamps or embosses identifying data on nameplates for manufactured products, using one of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Assembles dies or aligns type in die block, using setscrews.
* Positions die block on press bed, lowers ram with handwheel, and feeds blank plates into powered machine or pulls lever to imprint data on blank.
* (2) Turns wheel to specified character and pulls lever to stamp character on blank.
* Repeats operation for each character until specified information is embossed on plate.
* May place nameplate in hinged forming block and close block manually to shape plate to specified curvature.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically prints colors and designs on felt-base floor covering. Responsibilities include:
* Places felt paper rolls on machine spindles, using chain hoist.
* Installs specified printing blocks on presses, using handtools.
* Pours specified preweighed paint colors into machine troughs.
* Threads felt paper through rollers and starts machine.
* Observes felt paper strip passing under paint-filled troughs from which printing blocks are automatically lowered to print pattern onto felt paper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that prints decorative designs on harvest hats (strawhats) in hat manufacturing establishment. Responsibilities include:
* Places specified printing roller in machine holding device and turns setscrew to align roller and machine register marks.
* Pours specified paint into machine reservoirs.
* Pushes button or pulls lever to start machine.
* Removes hat from rack and places hat on machine ram.
* Depresses pedal to raise hat against printing rollers to print design on hat.
* Releases pedal to lower machine ram and removes hat.
* Observes printed design for imperfections and places hat on rack to dry or auto oven conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that prints graduations and numerals on enameled wooden slats used in folding rules, and automatically inserts printed slats in drying racks. Responsibilities include:
* Stacks blank slats in magazine of printing machine.
* Positions empty racks in feed magazine of slat-inserting mechanism.
* Starts machine and observes printing and racking processes.
* Examines printed slats for printing defects, and compares them with master rule to verify accuracy of graduations.
* Stops machine and clears jams in feeding mechanisms, using screwdriver.
* Replaces broken shearpins, using fingers.
* Lifts racks of printed slats from machine to handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that stencils design onto cloth as outline for tufting. Responsibilities include:
* Staples stencil (raised pattern) around stencil cylinder.
* Lays marking bar (colored paraffin) in holder.
* Mounts roll of cloth on machine brackets, threads cloth between stencil and marking bar, and laps cloth around takeup roller.
* Places weights on marking bar to hold bar against cloth.
* Starts machine that draws cloth between stencil and marking bar, transferring design in paraffin to cloth.
* Doffs rolls of stenciled cloth from delivery end of machine.
Industry:Professional careers
