"BOOKBINDER"
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Job Description:
- 1) Cuts, assembles, glues, and sews components to bind books, according to specification, using automatic and manually operated machines, handtools, and equipment: Folds printed sheets to form signatures and assembles signatures in numerical order to form book body.
- 2) Attaches endpapers to top and bottom of book body.
- 3) Sews signatures and endpapers together along spine of book body, using sewing machine, or glues endpapers and signatures together along spine, using brush or glue machine.
- 4) Compresses sewed or glued signatures to reduce book to required thickness, using handpress or smashing machine.
- 5) Trims edges of book to size, using cutting or book trimming machine or hand cutter.
- 6) Inserts book body in device that forms back edge of book into convex shape and produces grooves to facilitate attachment of cover.
- 7) Applies glue to back of book, using brush or glue machine, and attaches cloth backing and headband.
- 8) Applies color to edges of signatures, using brush, pad, or atomizer.
- 9) Cuts binder board to specified dimension, using board shears, hand cutter, or cutting machine.
- 10) Cuts cover material, such as leather or cloth, to specified dimensions and fits and glues material to binder board manually or by machine.
- 11) Glues outside endpapers to cover.
- 12) Places bound book in press that exerts pressure on cover until glue dries.
- 13) May imprint and emboss lettering, designs, or numbers on cover, using gold, silver, or colored foil and stamping machine.
- 14) May pack, weigh, and stack books on pallet for shipment.
- 15) May specialize in repairing and rebinding damaged or worn books for resale or reuse.
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Job Number: 981