Job Description:

• 1) Reproduces original engravings on metal plates used to print banknotes, bonds, and other securities, using gravers' handtools and machines: Cuts around designs on roller die to remove undesirable parts of assembled die, using graver, and assembles die from several rollers on which parts of design have been engraved.

• 2) Lays out construction lines on steel plate, using trammel point, dividers, steel scribers, and gauge, to align subjects to be transferred.

• 3) Scrapes and burnishes plate surface to remove imperfections, aligns plate on transfer press bed, and positions engraved steel roll on plate, using magnifying glass to verify accuracy.

• 4) Depresses lever that embeds engraved design on roll into steel plate.

• 5) Examines transferred design and repeats process until exact reproduction is made.

• 6) May reproduce design in soft steel rolls.