// Unit group · 7323

Print Finishing and Binding Workers

Print finishing and binding workers bind books and other publications, and finish printed products by hand or machine.

7 Craft and Related Trades Workers / 73 Handicraft and Printing Workers / 732 Printing Trades Workers / All level 4

// Working conditions

Air and dustChemicalsMachineryNoise

// Hand tools

No hand tools in this set.

setting up and supervising the operation of automatic binding and finishing equipment

binding full, half and limp-bound books, and repairing bindings

folding, collating and sewing signatures by machine and hand

operating paper guillotines for pre-press and post-press paper cutting and trimming, and programming electronically operated units

operating systems to insert printed material into newspapers, magazines and envelopes

embellishing printed products automatically and manually

operating photographic and electronic reproduction devices.

Included occupations

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

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