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.