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Printing occupations

Bookbinders and Bindery Workers

Most bookbinders and bindery workers train on the job.
Employment is expected to decline, reflecting the use of more productive machinery and the growth of imports of printed material that is already bound.
Opportunities for hand bookbinders are limited because only a small number of establishments do this highly specialized work.

Prepress Technicians and Workers

Most prepress technician jobs now require formal postsecondary graphic communications training in the various types of computer software used in digital imaging.
Employment is projected to decline as the increased use of computers in typesetting and page layout requires fewer prepress technicians.

Printing Machine Operators

Most printing machine operators are trained on the job.
Those skilled in digital printing operations will have the best job opportunities as more printing firms convert to this printing process because of the rising demand for customized print jobs.
The expected retirements of skilled press operators will create openings for workers with the proper training.

Printing Workers, all other

Fatalities

2004 Fatal occupational injuries by occupation and event or exposure

Occupation	Fatalities: Event or exposure
Occupation	Total	Tran.	Viol.	Cont.	Falls	Expo.	Fires
Printers	3	-	-	-	-	-	-

source: Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities Program; about this section

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