Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment to reproduce braille-embossed pages, using one of following methods: Places master page on screen bed.

• 2) Places roll of treated paper on stand.

• 3) Threads paper through equipment and locks paper in clamping frame.

• 4) Pulls heat unit over clamping frame.

• 5) Depresses pedal or handle to lower clamping frame onto screen bed and to create vacuum that forms braille impressions.

• 6) Pushes heat unit from bed.

• 7) Releases pedal or handle to raise clamping frame, and releases catch on frame to draw reproduced copy through equipment.

• 8) Repeats process to make required number of copies.

• 9) Cuts copies apart, using scissors.

• 10) Writes identifying information, such as page number or title, on each copy.

• 11) Positions master page on screen bed.

• 12) Places sheet of heat-sensitive plastic paper over page and lowers clamping frame to lock page into position on bed.

• 13) Pulls heat unit over clamping frame to activate vacuum pump trip-lever.

• 14) Holds heat unit over frame to form braille impressions.

• 15) Pushes heat unit from bed to release vacuum.

• 16) Raises frame to release individual copy.

• 17) Repeats process to make required number of copies.

• 18) Most workers in this occupation are blind.