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

• Bookbinder
• Bookbinder Apprentice

• Apply color to edges of signatures, using brushes, pads, or atomizers.
• Apply glue to backs of books, using brushes or glue machines, and attach cloth backing and headbands.
• Attach endpapers to tops and bottoms of book bodies, using sewing machines, or glue endpapers and signatures together along spines, using brushes or glue machines.
• Compress sewed or glued signatures to reduce books to required thicknesses, using hand presses or smashing machines.
• Cut binder boards to specified dimensions, using board shears, hand cutters, or cutting machines.
• Cut cover material to specified dimensions, and fit and glue material to binder boards manually or by machine.
• Design original or special bindings for limited editions.
• Establish production procedures based on job orders.
• Fold and sew printed sheets to form signatures, and assemble signatures in numerical order to form book bodies.
• Glue outside endpapers to covers.
• Imprint and emboss lettering, designs, or numbers on covers, using gold, silver, or colored foil, and stamping machines.
• Insert book bodies in devices that form back edges of books into convex shapes and produce grooves that facilitate attachment of covers.
• Make boxes or specialty items such as binders and photograph albums.
• Meet with clients, printers, and/or designers to discuss job requirements and binding plans.
• Pack and weigh books, and stack them on pallets to prepare them for shipment.
• Perform highly skilled hand finishing operations, such as grooving and lettering, to bind books.
• Place bound books in presses that exert pressure on covers until glue dries.
• Repair, restore, and rebind old or damaged books, including rare books.
• Trim edges of books to size, using cutting or book trimming machines or hand cutters.

• apply adhesives, caulking, sealants, or coatings
• collate printed materials
• fabricate, assemble, or disassemble manufactured products by hand
• load, unload, or stack containers, materials, or products
• make independent judgment in assembly procedures
• measure, weigh, or count products or materials
• operate bindery equipment
• operate printing equipment/machinery
• operate sewing machine
• package goods for shipment or storage
• use hand or power tools