Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that prints information, such as price, size, style, or color, on identification tags or labeling material: Selects type, according to specifications, and inserts type into machine, using tweezers, or turns dial on machine to move type into printing position.

• 2) Mounts roll of tags or labeling material on machine brackets and threads end of roll through feeding device.

• 3) Applies liquid or paste ink to printing rollers or printing pad on machine, using applicator.

• 4) Flips switch or depresses pedal to start machine that automatically prints information on tags or material.

• 5) Observes printed tags or material during start-up for defects, such as crooked lines, blurred print, or off-centered printing, and turns knobs or repositions printing plate, using handtools, to adjust machine.

• 6) Removes printed material from delivery end of machine.

• 7) May turn crank to print information on tags or material.

• 8) May cut individual labels or tags from rolls of material, using scissors.

• 9) May tend machine equipped with automatic cutter and counting control that stops machine when specified number of tickets have been printed.

• 10) May tend machine that threads string through holes in tags or labels.

• 11) May tend machine that automatically prints identifying information on ticket and pins ticket to articles and be designated Pin-Ticket-Machine Operator.