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A professional who operates automatic screen-printing machine to print multicolor designs on textiles. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts screens in specified sequence on machine.
* Pours printing paste onto screens or fills automatic feed pan.
* Turns knob to set machine speed and adjusts swing and pressure of squeegees, using handtools, according to type of design and cloth being printed.
* Starts machine and conveyor belt that carries textile articles under screens.
* Inspects articles being printed to detect colors out of register (alignment).
* Turns screws to adjust position of screens so that each color is printed in allotted spaces in design.
* Removes foreign matter from screens to prevent irregular flow of printing paste.
* Tapes holes in coated portion of screen if leak develops.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates automatic screen-printing machine to print multicolor designs on textiles. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts screens in specified sequence on machine.
* Pours printing paste onto screens or fills automatic feed pan.
* Turns knob to set machine speed and adjusts swing and pressure of squeegees, using handtools, according to type of design and cloth being printed.
* Starts machine and conveyor belt that carries textile articles under screens.
* Inspects articles being printed to detect colors out of register (alignment).
* Turns screws to adjust position of screens so that each color is printed in allotted spaces in design.
* Removes foreign matter from screens to prevent irregular flow of printing paste.
* Tapes holes in coated portion of screen if leak develops.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to stamp designs on pottery and porcelain flatware. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps ware mold in machine.
* Observes gauges and moves levers to adjust machine pressure, according to size of ware and pattern to be stamped on ware.
* Aligns design stamp on bed or head of machine and adjusts guide bars.
* Stirs premixed ink on pallet and applies ink on stamp with inking pad or fills reservoir of mechanical inking device with color glaze.
* Positions and clamps ware in head of press, places ware in holding device of stamp fixture, or positions ware over vacuum holding device on bed of press.
* Positions stamp for transferring design onto ware, using guide bars.
* Depresses pedal to lower head of press and stamp design on ware.
* Removes ware from bed of machine.
* Inspects design and discards ware with defective printing.
* Rubs ware with abrasive stone to remove ink spots or excess glaze.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates striping machine to ink multicolored identification stripes on insulated wire according to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Installs striping wheels in inking head and fills ink reservoirs.
* Adjusts footage counter and ink timer.
* Clamps wire spool on payoff spindle and threads wire around capstan, through inking head, and onto takeup spindle and starts machine.
* Inspects striped cable for defects and turns setscrews to adjust pressure of striping wheels.
* Mixes inks in power mixer, following formula, to obtain specified color shades.
* May thread wire through electric oven to dry ink.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to emboss and imprint designs, lettering, numbers, or product information onto surfaces of material, such as paper, cloth, leather, or plastic, using foil, gold-leaf, coated ribbon, or plastic tape, following specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Receives verbal instructions, reads work order sheet, or inserts disk in drive of computer and depresses keys to retrieve job order slip with printing instructions on computer screen.
* Sets heat, pressure, and time controls, according to material to be stamped.
* Installs and locks character wheel, embossing die, or stamping die in heated chase of machine.
* Turns on heating element.
* Inserts reel of specified material, such as foil, gold-leaf, coated ribbon, or plastic tape in holder or on spindle, and threads end through rollers which feed and guide material under die mounted on ram of machine or places sheet of foil over impression.
* Positions and aligns workpiece under holding arm in bed of hand fed machine or feed hopper of automatically fed machine in position specified on work order or in illuminated window on computerized machine.
* Starts machine which lowers ram to heated die or character wheel and ribbon to emboss and imprint workpiece and automatically moves coated ribbon with each stroke of machine.
* May operate machine to imprint trade names, brand, and grade onto leather sweatbands and be designated sweatband printer.
* When printing titles and designs on book covers, is designated embosser.
* When imprinting identifying information on battery lids or encasements, is designated embossing-press operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that prints designs on textile fabrics. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes cloth roll from handtruck onto rack at back of machine.
* Sews end of cloth to end of preceding roll, using sewing machine.
* Starts feed rollers and observes cloth as cloth unwinds into scray to detect cloth pieces sewn into roll face down.
* Ravels seams, turns face of cloth up, and resews cloth ends.
* Turns setscrews to adjust width guides and tension devices.
* Ladles color from buckets into color boxes or turns valve to transfer color from tubs to color boxes.
* Sews new length of back gray cloth to length in machine.
* When blanket is used, scoops talcum into hopper where blanket is dusted after passing through washbox.
* Removes color boxes and doctors and washes printing rollers, using brush and water hose, to prevent damage to rollers when printing stops.
* Assists printing-roller handler or gray-cloth tender, printing in removing and replacing color boxes, doctors, printing rollers, and gears when changing pattern.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that prints identifying information on bias binding. Responsibilities include:
* Slides rolls of binding on dispenser rod and secures rod into brackets of machine.
* Fills reservoir of printing machine with ink and inserts presser roller in brackets above printing roller. Threads ends of binding from rod over suction guides, between presser and printing rollers and over top guides to takeup rod.
* Flips switch to start machine that prints identifying data on binding and winds printed binding on takeup rod.
* Observes printing to detect defects, such as smudges and ink streaks on binding.
* Cuts smeared binding from roll and staples rolls to prevent unwinding.
* Slides printed rolls from takeup rod and loads rolls on truck for transporting to drying oven.
* Loads binding on racks of drying oven and sets automatic timer and temperature control to dry binding.
* Packs binding in cartons and seals and bands carton, using strapping tool.
* Writes identifying information on label and attaches label to cartons.
* Moves cartons of binding to storage area, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends marking machine that prints shoe and garment size, lot, and style numbers on boxes. Responsibilities include:
* Positions marking dies by moving fingers (levers) on disk of machine.
* Removes box cover and places base of box over platen.
* Depresses pedal or moves lever to lower dies onto end of box and print identifying symbols.
* May label boxes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts cloth into specified lengths, prints information, such as brand name, contents, and weight on lengths, and folds lengths for use in making bags. Responsibilities include:
* Turns dial to specified length number or changes gears with wrench to obtain specified length of cut.
* Fits crimped edges of printing plate over rods on printing cylinder of machine and tightens setscrews to secure plate to cylinder.
* Sews end of new cloth roll to end of cloth in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Fills ink fountain and starts machine.
* Verifies location of information on bag length by comparing printed length with order sample.
* May place folded cloth pieces onto handtruck for removal to sewing department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that prints trademarks, advertisements, and designs on parts of marking devices, such as pens, wooden and mechanical pencils, or felt or fiber tipped markers. Responsibilities include:
* Positions and aligns specified printing dies or type in machine head.
* Places parts, such as casings or caps, in machine hopper or holding device.
* Presses switch or depresses pedal to start machine that prints characters or designs on parts.
* Removes parts from machine conveyor or holding device.
* Inspects printed characters or designs and compares with written specifications.
* Places parts on rack for drying.
* May push rack into drying compartment.
* May pour ink into machine reservoir.
* May tend machine that prints trademark, size, and code number on ballpoint pen refills.
Industry:Professional careers
