Print Binding and Finishing Workers

• Maintain records, such as daily production records, using specified forms.

• Examine stitched, collated, bound, or unbound product samples for defects, such as imperfect bindings, ink spots, torn pages, loose pages, or loose or uncut threads.
• Monitor machine operations to detect malfunctions or to determine whether adjustments are needed.
• Read work orders to determine instructions and specifications for machine set-up.
• Train workers to set up, operate, and use automatic bindery machines.
• Set up or operate glue machines by filling glue reservoirs, turning switches to activate heating elements, or adjusting glue flow or conveyor speed.
• Lubricate, clean, or make minor repairs to machine parts to keep machines in working condition.
• Compress sewed or glued signatures, using hand presses or smashing machines.
• Bind new books, using hand tools such as bone folders, knives, hammers, or brass binding tools.
• Prepare finished books for shipping by wrapping or packing books and stacking boxes on pallets.
• Set up or operate machines that perform binding operations, such as pressing, folding, or trimming.
• Set up or operate bindery machines, such as coil binders, thermal or tape binders, plastic comb binders, or specialty binders.
• Install or adjust bindery machine devices, such as knives, guides, rollers, rounding forms, creasing rams, or clamps, to accommodate sheets, signatures, or books of specified sizes.
• Insert book bodies in devices that form back edges of books into convex shapes and produce grooves that facilitate cover attachment.
• Perform highly skilled hand finishing binding operations, such as grooving or lettering.
• Cut cover material to specified dimensions, fitting and gluing material to binder boards by hand or machine.
• Cut binder boards to specified dimensions, using board shears, hand cutters, or cutting machines.
• Trim edges of books to size, using cutting machines, book trimming machines, or hand cutters.
• Imprint or emboss lettering, designs, or numbers on book covers, using gold, silver, or colored foil, and stamping machines.
• Stitch or glue endpapers, bindings, backings, or signatures, using sewing machines, glue machines, or glue and brushes.

No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (95%).