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| Job Description |
Operates Routing Machine With Free Moving Head To Cut Excess
Metal From Nonprinting Areas Of Electrotype, Stereotype, And
Photoengraved Printing Plates: Clamps Plate Face Onto Routing
Machine Table. Selects Cutter Bit And Installs Bit In Chuck Of
Routing Spindle. Depresses Pedal To Start Machine And Moves Hand
Guides To Control Direction Of Rotating Cutter Bit Along
Outlines Of Design Or Letters Set Off By Chemically Darkened
Etching. Depresses Pedal To Raise Cutter Bit To Avoid Cutting
Printing Areas Of Plate. Bevels Edges Of Plates To Form Nailing
Surface For Mounting Plates To Wood Or Synthetic Blocks, Using
Router Or Beveling Machine. Mounts Curved Plates On Saddle
Device In Order To Cut Metal From Nonprinting Areas. May Mount
Finished Printing Plates On Wood, Synthetic, Or Metal Blocks To
Raise Them To Printing Height, By Hand Or Using Automatic
Plate-mounting Equipment [blocker (print. & Pub.) I].
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