NKPD code: 7323
Print finishing and binding workers bind books and other printed publications and perform finishing operations by hand or machine. Print finishing and binding workers perform the following main tasks: • 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