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.
Seven County Mpls-St Paul, MN
| 1,140 | 76 | $22.71/hr | $15.43/hr | $19.30/hr | $23.74/hr | $24.60/hr | $30.87/hr |
Manufacturing | 1,390 | $23.40/hr |
Information | 30 | $19.21/hr |
Professional and Business Services | 160 | $15.43/hr |
Education and Health Services | N/A | $19.30/hr |
Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
| 1,700 | $24.48/hr | -1.6% |
Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
| 1,950 | $24.34/hr | -8.6% |
Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
| 150 | $25.05/hr | -14.3% |
Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
| 1,800 | $21.94/hr | -3.2% |
Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
| 140 | $17.99/hr | -11.1% |
Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
| 280 | $19.39/hr | -15.0% |
Printing Press Operators
| 6,250 | $19.98/hr | -9.5% |
Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
| 4,170 | $19.54/hr | -2.3% |
Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
| 1,790 | $19.54/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.