Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates sign printing machines to print store display cards and signs, according to size and quantity of signs ordered, using either of following methods: Clamps cardboard on base of machine that prints letters one at a time.

• 2) Pushes lever to position type case over cardboard.

• 3) Pulls lever to depress plunger that prints letter on cardboard.

• 4) Chooses type style, positions letters in composing stick, and clamps it on bed of manual platen press that prints sign in one operation.

• 5) Selects and mixes color of poster paint, and applies paint to type, using roller.

• 6) Inserts cardboard into holding clamps of press, and pulls carriage to end of press bed.

• 7) Depresses pedal to lower cylinders against cardboard and type to print sign.

• 8) May lay out display signs that include photographs or merchandising samples.

• 9) May use chemicals and heat to produce embossed signs.