Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates ruling machines to draw lines on tablets, notebooks, looseleaf fillers, and index cards according to specifications: Reads job orders to determine settings.

• 2) Installs and adjusts machine parts, such as slitting knives, trimming blades, ruling heads, discs or pens, printing reels, belts, and gear, using handtools.

• 3) Sets guides, feed rollers, punching units, and other machine parts to accommodate size and style of material being produced.

• 4) Mixes ink compounds, fills ink wells, and turns valves to regulate flow of ink.

• 5) Places stacks of paper sheets on feedboard of machine or installs rolls of paper in roll-fed machine and turns handwheel to adjust cutting mechanism that cuts product to specified length.

• 6) Sets counter when printing sheets for looseleaf fillers.

• 7) Starts machine for test run.

• 8) Examines lines being drawn to detect variations in line width or color tone, and measures dimensions of product, using tape rule, to ensure conformance to specifications.

• 9) Makes adjustments as required.

• 10) Starts machine and observes operation of machine during production run.

• 11) Inserts pieces of cardboard and sheets of printed paper into stacks of lined sheets at specified intervals to provide backs and fronts when making tablets.

• 12) Stops machine when malfunction occurs, corrects malfunction, or notifies other worker of malfunction.

• 13) Cleans machine parts, using solvent.

• 14) May oversee workers in supplying paper stock to machine.

• 15) May operate roll-fed machine, equipped with paper cutter and two sets of ruling heads or pens to draw horizontal and vertical lines, and be designated L-Type-Ruling-Machine Operator.