Career Details :: Electrotypers and Stereotypers
Description
Fabricate and finish electrotype and stereotype printing plates.
Experience
Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.
Education
A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
Training
Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.
Tasks
- Sprays plastic mold with silver solution and immerses mold in plating tank.
- Cuts and pastes pieces of paper-felt or cardboard in nonprinting areas of wood-fiber mat to prevent collapse during casting.
- Forms mold of composed type, using plastic sheet-molding or wood-fiber mat, and hydraulic press.
- Inserts pins in base to register stereotype plates to key plate for mat molding.
- Aligns and notches mats of color series with key color mat, using matching machine with monocolor magnifier attachment.
- Drills matching holes in series of mounted color stereotype plates to be duplicated.
- Trims mat, using trimming machine, by aligning notches of mat with pins on trimming machine.
- Removes excess metal from edges, back, and nonprinting surface areas of plate, using power shear, milling machines, or routing machine.
- Mounts finished plates on wood or metal blocks for flatbed presses, using hammer, nails, or bonding press.
- Curves plates for cylinder presses, using plate-curving machine.
- Operates automatic casting machine to produce electrotype or stereotype printing plates.
- Pours metal into casting box or plated mold by hand to produce electrotype or stereotype printing plates.
- Operates proof press to obtain proof of plate reproduction and registration.
- Corrects defects on plate, using engraver's hand tools, punches, and hammers.
- Examines plate to detect imperfect formation of lines, type, and halftone dots, using magnifier.
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- Engraver Set-Up Operators
- Mold Makers, Hand
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- Solderers
- Tool and Die Makers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Important Skills
- Operation and Control
- Product Inspection
- Equipment Selection
- Problem Identification
- Solution Appraisal
Frequent Work Context
- Hazardous Equipment
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Indoors
- Hazardous Equipment
Related Majors
| Major | Add to XapPack |
|---|---|
| Electronic Publishing/Imaging |  [ add ] |
| Graphic Arts Technology | [ add ] |
| Graphic Communications Management | [ add ] |
| Graphic Communications Technology | [ add ] |
| Graphics Technology | [ add ] |
| Printing | [ add ] |
| Printing Management | [ add ] |
| Printing Technology | [ add ] |
| Printing/Applied Computer Science | [ add ] |
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