Job Description:

• 1) Tends manually controlled offset press that prints lettering on products, such as dial faces and plastic containers: Rolls machine carriage, equipped with pair of clean and inked cylinders, back and forth over press bed to ink engraved plates or dies and transfer impression to clean cylinder.

• 2) Positions dial faces or containers in holders in front of engraved plates.

• 3) Pulls carriage forward so that letters are impressed on clean cylinder and transferred to surface of product.

• 4) Inspects product for smears, stains, uniform shading, and contrast.

• 5) Places product on tray and places tray into oven to dry printing ink, or places product on conveyor leading to drying oven.

• 6) Prints flexible containers on press equipped with airhose; forces air into container with hose to produce solid surface for printing.

• 7) Periodically washes cylinders with solvent.

• 8) Spreads ink on cleaned cylinder with spatula.

• 9) May clean smears and spots from rejects with solvent and reprint them.

• 10) May change ink, rollers, and die cut to print more than one color.