Machine operator, bookbinding

Print finishing and binding workers bind books and other printed publications and perform finishing operations by hand or machine.

• setting up and controlling automatic equipment for binding and finishing printed products;
• binding and repairing bound printed products;
• folding, gathering, collating sections and sewing by machine and by hand;
• operating paper guillotines for pre-press and post-press trimming and squaring, and programming electronically controlled devices;
• operating paper feed systems in the production of newspapers, magazines and envelopes;
• decorating and finishing printed products automatically and by hand;
• operating photographic electronic reproduction equipment.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Bookbinder
• Worker, section gathering
• Worker, embossing
• Worker, final finishing