General:

Binds books and other publications, or finishes printed products by hand or machine.

Tasks Include:

• sets up and supervises the operation of automatic binding and finishing equipment
• binds full, half-bound, quarter-bound and limp-bound books, and repairs bindings
• folds, collates and sews signatures by machine or hand
• operates paper guillotines for pre-press and post-press paper cutting and trimming, and programs electronically-operated units
• may edge-gild, bevel and marble bindings using hand tools