Occupational Employment Statistics
51-5113 Print Binding and Finishing Workers
Bind books and other publications or finish printed products by hand or machine. May set up binding and finishing machines.
Northwest Minnesota
| 90 | 21 | $20.83/hr | $17.27/hr | $17.39/hr | $22.57/hr | $22.57/hr | $27.15/hr |
Manufacturing | 1,450 | $23.43/hr |
Professional and Business Services | 80 | $14.84/hr |
Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
| 1,350 | $25.19/hr | -1.6% |
Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
| 2,190 | $20.61/hr | -8.6% |
Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
| 160 | $26.58/hr | -14.3% |
Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
| 1,480 | $22.98/hr | -3.2% |
Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
| 190 | $36.30/hr | N/A |
Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
| 130 | $18.75/hr | -11.1% |
Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
| 50 | $20.59/hr | -15.0% |
Printing Press Operators
| 5,380 | $22.80/hr | -9.5% |
Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
| 4,950 | $22.80/hr | -2.3% |
Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
| 1,490 | $22.12/hr | -3.8% |
- Maintain records, such as daily production records, using specified forms.
- Read work orders to determine instructions and specifications for machine set-up.
- Set up or operate glue machines by filling glue reservoirs, turning switches to activate heating elements, or adjusting glue flow or conveyor speed.
- Set up or operate machines that perform binding operations, such as pressing, folding, or trimming.
- Insert book bodies in devices that form back edges of books into convex shapes and produce grooves that facilitate cover attachment.
- 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.
- Bind new books, using hand tools such as bone folders, knives, hammers, or brass binding tools.
- Monitor machine operations to detect malfunctions or to determine whether adjustments are needed.
- Cut cover material to specified dimensions, fitting and gluing material to binder boards by hand or machine.
- Form book bodies by folding and sewing printed sheets to form signatures and assembling signatures in numerical order.