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Career Details :: Bookbinders
Description
Perform highly skilled hand-finishing operations, such as grooving and lettering to bind books.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Applies glue to back of book, using brush or glue machine, and attaches cloth backing and headband.
- Inserts book body in device that forms back edge of book into convex shape and produces grooves to facilitate attachment of cover.
- Packs, weighs, and stacks books on pallet for shipment.
- Cuts cover material to specified dimensions and fits and glues material to binder board manually or by machine.
- Applies color to edges of signatures, using brush, pad, or atomizer.
- Cuts binder board to specified dimension, using board shears, hand cutter, or cutting machine.
- Attaches endpapers to top and bottom of book body, using sewing machine, or glues endpapers and signatures together along spine, using brush or glue machine.
- Trims edges of book to size, using cutting or book-trimming machine or hand cutter.
- Imprints and embosses lettering, designs, or numbers on cover, using gold, silver, or colored foil and stamping machine.
- Glues outside endpapers to cover.
- Folds printed sheets to form signatures (pages) and assembles signatures in numerical order to form book body.
- Compresses sewed or glued signatures to reduce book to required thickness, using handpress or smashing machine.
- Places bound book in press that exerts pressure on cover until glue dries.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Indoors
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
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