Print Binding and Finishing Workers
ProductionAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Print Binding and Finishing Workers with an AI automation risk score of 18%. Analysis includes 25 core tasks.
Why This Score?
- Work environment requires human interaction and presence
Responsibilities and Abilities
Key Responsibilities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Getting Information
- Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
Required Abilities
- Problem Sensitivity
- Finger Dexterity
- Near Vision
- Oral Comprehension
- Oral Expression
Key Tasks
Design original or special bindings for limited editions or other custom binding projects.
Train workers to set up, operate, and use automatic bindery machines.
Punch holes in and fasten paper sheets, signatures, or other material, using hand or machine punches and staplers.
Form book bodies by folding and sewing printed sheets to form signatures and assembling signatures in numerical order.
Monitor machine operations to detect malfunctions or to determine whether adjustments are needed.
Repair, restore, or rebind old, rare, or damaged books, using hand tools.
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.
Maintain records, such as daily production records, using specified forms.
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Upskilling Courses
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Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data