Job Description:

• 1) Makes ready and operates cylinder-type printing press: Verifies size, color, and type of paper and color of ink from job order.

• 2) Cleans inking rollers with solvent and replaces them in press, using handtools.

• 3) Adjusts controls to regulate volume of ink.

• 4) Packs impression cylinder with tissue or folio.

• 5) Adjusts delivery tapes, and positions and locks form on bed or cylinder of press.

• 6) Directs CYLINDER-PRESS FEEDER in adjustment of feed guides, grippers, and elevator, or hand-feeding press.

• 7) Starts press and runs off proofsheet.

• 8) Examines proof to determine off-level areas, variation in ink volume, register slippage, indications of offsetting, and color register.

• 9) Adjusts press controls, inking fountains, and automatic feeders, and repacks cylinder with overlay to equalize off-level areas as required.

• 10) May register forms and mix colors.

• 11) May make overlay for half-tone shades.

• 12) May operate cylinder press equipped with cutting attachment or may replace type dies with cutting dies to cut or shape paper or paperboard.

• 13) May operate more than one press.

• 14) May be designated according to kind of material printed as Check Imprinter; Envelope-Press Operator I; Label-Press Operator I; size of press as Pony-Cylinder-Press Operator.

• 15) Important variations may be indicated by trade names of machine used.