Skills & competences

Description

Print finishing and binding workers bind books and other publications, and finish printed products by hand or machine.
Tasks include -
(a) setting up and supervising the operation of automatic binding and finishing equipment;
(b) binding full, half and limp-bound books, and repairing bindings;
(c) folding, collating and sewing signatures by machine and hand;
(d) operating paper guillotines for pre-press and post-press paper cutting and trimming, and programming electronically operated units;
(e) operating systems to insert printed material into newspapers, magazines and envelopes;
(f) embellishing printed products automatically and manually;
(g) operating photographic and electronic reproduction devices.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Book binder
- Collator operator
- Cutter operator
- Foil stamp operator
- Folder operator
- Gatherer operator
- Multibinder operator
- Perfect binder operator
- Saddle stitch operator
- Small machine bindery worker