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Job Description
Responsibilities:
The Die Cutter Operator is responsible for setting up and operating a printing machine to produce product.
Inspect and examine printed products for accuracy, conformance to specifications, and external defects.
Reposition printing plates, adjust pressure rolls, or otherwise adjust machines to improve quality, using knobs, hand wheels, or hand tools.
Set and adjust speed, temperature, and positions and pressure tolerances of equipment.
Examine job orders to determine details such as quantities to be printed, production times, stock specifications.
Select and install printing plates, rollers, feed guides, gauges, screens, stencils, dies, and cylinders in machines according to specifications, using hand tools.
Monitor feeding, printing, and racking processes of presses to maintain specified operating levels and to detect malfunctions, making adjustments as necessary.
Load, position, and adjust unprinted materials on holding fixtures or in equipment loading and feeding mechanisms.
Clean and lubricate printing machines and components, using oil, solvents, brushes, rags, and hoses.
Measure screens and use measurements to center and align screens in proper positions and sequences on machines, using gauges and hand tools.
Monitor and control operation of auxiliary equipment to assemble and finish products.
Pack and label cartons, boxes, or bins of finished products.
Other duties as assigned