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Skilled Trades

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.

Median salary

$39,820

Typical range

$31k – $58k

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Education

Typical entry: No degree required

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Typical progression

  1. Junior Print Binding and Finishing Workers

    Entry / Junior

    $31,110

    ~2 yrs to advance

  2. Print Binding and Finishing Workers

    Established

    $39,820

    ~3 yrs to advance

  3. Senior Print Binding and Finishing Workers

    Senior

    $48,900

Key skills

A typical day

  • •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.
  • •Read work orders to determine instructions and specifications for machine set-up.
  • •Install or adjust bindery machine devices, such as knives, guides, rollers, rounding forms, creasing rams, or clamps, to accommodate sheets, signatures, or books of specified sizes.
  • •Trim edges of books to size, using cutting machines, book trimming machines, or hand cutters.
  • •Stitch or glue endpapers, bindings, backings, or signatures, using sewing machines, glue machines, or glue and brushes.

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