Bookbinders

Perform highly skilled hand finishing operations, such as grooving and lettering to bind books.

Job Task

• Applies glue to back of book, using brush or glue machine, and attaches cloth backing and headband.
• Folds printed sheets to form signatures (pages) and assembles signatures in numerical order to form book body.
• Compresses sewed or glued signatures to reduce book to required thickness, using handpress or smashing machine.
• Imprints and embosses lettering, designs, or numbers on cover, using gold, silver, or colored foil and stamping machine.
• Glues outside endpapers to cover.
• Attaches endpapers to top and bottom of book body, using sewing machine, or glues endpapers and signatures together along spine, using brush or glue machine.
• Trims edges of book to size, using cutting or book trimming machine or hand cutter.
• Applies color to edges of signatures, using brush, pad, or atomizer.
• Inserts book body in device that forms back edge of book into convex shape and produces grooves to facilitate attachment of cover.
• Cuts cover material to specified dimensions and fits and glues material to binder board manually or by machine.
• Cuts binder board to specified dimension, using board shears, hand cutter, or cutting machine.
• Packs, weighs, and stacks books on pallet for shipment.
• Places bound book in press that exerts pressure on cover until glue dries.

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