Print Binding and Finishing Workers Career, Salary and Skills

Occupation description

Bind books and other publications or finish printed products by hand or machine. May set up binding and finishing machines.

National salary and employment

Top skills

Typical tasks

• Read work orders to determine instructions and specifications for machine set-up.
• Install or adjust bindery machine devices, such as knives, guides, rollers, rounding forms, creasing rams, or clamps, to accommodate sheets, signatures, or books of specified sizes.
• Trim edges of books to size, using cutting machines, book trimming machines, or hand cutters.
• Stitch or glue endpapers, bindings, backings, or signatures, using sewing machines, glue machines, or glue and brushes.
• Monitor machine operations to detect malfunctions or to determine whether adjustments are needed.
• Maintain records, such as daily production records, using specified forms.
• Lubricate, clean, or make minor repairs to machine parts to keep machines in working condition.
• Examine stitched, collated, bound, or unbound product samples for defects, such as imperfect bindings, ink spots, torn pages, loose pages, or loose or uncut threads.

Technology

• Email software
• Houchen Bindery Library Automated Retrieval System LARS
• Label printing software
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Publisher
• Microsoft Word
• Trade Bindery Software Bindery Estimating System
• Trade Bindery Software Bindery Management System
• Web browser software

Print Binding and Finishing Workers salary by location

Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.

• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in WI
  Median $43,400 · Employment 3,560
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in New York, NY
  Median $46,600 · Employment 1,940
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in TX
  Median $37,310 · Employment 1,820
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in MN
  Median $48,390 · Employment 1,710
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in OH
  Median $43,680 · Employment 1,700
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in PA
  Median $43,010 · Employment 1,640
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in NJ
  Median $46,600 · Employment 1,640
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in CA
  Median $45,390 · Employment 1,590
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in IL
  Median $47,880 · Employment 1,540
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in Milwaukee, WI
  Median $44,360 · Employment 1,490
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in MI
  Median $40,460 · Employment 1,320
• Print Binding and Finishing Workers Salary in FL
  Median $38,730 · Employment 1,320

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