- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who sets up and adjusts automatic screen printing machines for workers engaged in screen printing multicolored designs onto cloth articles. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with supervisor, screen printing to determine daily production schedule and transmits work instructions to other workers.
* Analyzes print order to determine settings and adjustments required to set up automatic screen printing machine for specified order.
* Turns thumbscrews, loosens and tightens bolts, and aligns printing screens, using handtools.
* Patrols printing area to detect problems, such as mechanical breakdowns or malfunctions, printout of register (alignment), and damaged screens.
* Adjusts belts, drive assemblies, pneumatic lifting mechanisms, and other machine parts to correct problems, or notifies supervisor of malfunction.
* Counts and records production in log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts automatic screen printing machines for workers engaged in screen printing multicolored designs onto cloth articles. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with supervisor, screen printing to determine daily production schedule and transmits work instructions to other workers.
* Analyzes print order to determine settings and adjustments required to set up automatic screen printing machine for specified order.
* Turns thumbscrews, loosens and tightens bolts, and aligns printing screens, using handtools.
* Patrols printing area to detect problems, such as mechanical breakdowns or malfunctions, printout of register (alignment), and damaged screens.
* Adjusts belts, drive assemblies, pneumatic lifting mechanisms, and other machine parts to correct problems, or notifies supervisor of malfunction.
* Counts and records production in log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up manually controlled or automatic decorating equipment that prints designs on glass or plastic containers or ware according to either of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* Determines type and color of designs to print on containers from orders.
* (1) Pushes portable, manually controlled decorating equipment and roller conveyors into position for printing.
* Centers silk screen and squeegee attachment over container on decorating equipment, using gauge, and bolts screen to holding fixture.
* Examines containers for paint smears and position of design to determine if equipment needs adjusting.
* (2) Bolts chucks to conveyor of automatic decorating machine to accommodate containers of specified size.
* Turns setscrews and bends contacts on trip switches to adjust stroke of automatic decorating machine so designs are printed in designated locations on containers.
* Inspects decorating equipment, and replaces defective switches, pulleys, fixtures, screws, and bolts, using handtools, and sharpens squeegee blades, using bench grinder. May record types of quantities of containers decorated in production log.
* May mix paints according to formula, using bench mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to print designs on materials, such as cloth, fiberglass, plastic sheeting, coated felt, or oilcloth. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel to set pressure on printing rollers, according to specifications.
* Turns screws to align register marks on printing rollers with register marks on machine, using allen wrench.
* Sharpens doctor blade, using file and oilstone, and verifies evenness of blade, using straightedge.
* Aligns doctor blade against printing roller, using handtools.
* Dips color from tubs into color boxes to supply printing rollers.
* Scans cloth leaving machine for printing defects, such as smudges, variations in color shades, and designs that are out of register (alignment).
* Realigns printing rollers and adjusts position of blanket or back gray cloth to absorb excess color from printing rollers.
* Records yardage of cloth printed.
* Coordinates printing activities with activities of workers who feed and doff machine and aid in setting up and cleaning machine.
* May notify colorist when color shade varies from specifications.
* May mix own colors.
* May mount printing rollers on machine for change of pattern.
* May position knives specified distance from edge of plastic material to trim excess material from edges.
* When printing samples of new patterns and novelty designs, is designated novelty-printing-machine operator or proofing-machine operator.
* May set up and operate cloth printing machine utilizing caustic soda paste instead of color paste to print designs on cloth which shrink to form plisse and be designated plisse-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mounts printing rollers on cloth printing machine for change of pattern. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts mandrel through printing shell and positions shell on hydraulic jack, using hoist.
* Starts jack that presses mandrel into shell to assemble completed roller.
* Removes used rollers from printing machine and lifts new rollers into position with aid of other workers, using hoist.
* Removes printing shells from mandrel, using hydraulic jack.
* Moves used rollers to warehouse for cleaning and storage, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to print decorative designs on uncured rubber sheeting, used in making footwear. Responsibilities include:
* Computes required yardage of each design and type of sheeting compound from work ticket.
* Selects drum of stock to match order.
* Pushes a-frame, in which drum of stock is mounted above empty rewind drum, to stop in front of printing roller and attaches wheel-mounted motor to axle of rewind drum, using collar and wrench.
* Selects and installs printing roller engraved with specified design, using wrenches.
* Fills paint reservoir.
* Pulls sheeting from wrapper and threads end through rollers onto conveyor belt and attaches wrapper to core of rewind drum.
* Starts conveyor and rewind motor and observes sheeting for clarity of printing.
* Turns stopnuts and t-screws to adjust distance between paint transfer and printing rollers to print design clearly and without cutting into stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to print decorative designs on uncured rubber sheeting, used in making footwear. Responsibilities include:
* Computes required yardage of each design and type of sheeting compound from work ticket.
* Selects drum of stock to match order.
* Pushes a-frame, in which drum of stock is mounted above empty rewind drum, to stop in front of printing roller and attaches wheel-mounted motor to axle of rewind drum, using collar and wrench.
* Selects and installs printing roller engraved with specified design, using wrenches.
* Fills paint reservoir.
* Pulls sheeting from wrapper and threads end through rollers onto conveyor belt and attaches wrapper to core of rewind drum.
* Starts conveyor and rewind motor and observes sheeting for clarity of printing.
* Turns stopnuts and t-screws to adjust distance between paint transfer and printing rollers to print design clearly and without cutting into stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines cloth during printing process for defects, such as color smears, grease spots, and irregular color shade and register. Responsibilities include:
* Observes cloth for printing defects as it emerges from printing machines into handtrucks.
* Compares cloth patch cut from each truckload of printed cloth with standard to verify color shade and position of design.
* Reports substandard printing to cloth printer.
* Records flaws found in each truckload of cloth and lot number on ticket attached to patch cut from fabric.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates rotary screen-printing machine to print designs on textiles. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts screen-printing rollers in specified sequence on machine.
* Turns knob to set machine speed and adjust pressure of rollers, according to type of design and cloth being printed.
* Turns valves that automatically admit printing paste into rollers.
* Starts machine and conveyor belt that carries textile articles under printing rollers.
* Inspects article being printed to detect colors out of register (alignment).
* Turns knob to adjust position of rollers so that each color is printed in allotted spaces in design.
* Removes foreign matter from rollers to prevent irregular flow of printing paste.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates rotary screen-printing machine to print designs on textiles. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts screen-printing rollers in specified sequence on machine.
* Turns knob to set machine speed and adjust pressure of rollers, according to type of design and cloth being printed.
* Turns valves that automatically admit printing paste into rollers.
* Starts machine and conveyor belt that carries textile articles under printing rollers.
* Inspects article being printed to detect colors out of register (alignment).
* Turns knob to adjust position of rollers so that each color is printed in allotted spaces in design.
* Removes foreign matter from rollers to prevent irregular flow of printing paste.
Industry:Professional careers
