Occupation Profile for Bookbinders
Perform highly skilled hand finishing operations, such as grooving and lettering to bind books.
Signficant Points
- Employment is expected to decline rapidly, reflecting the use of more productive machinery and the growth of imports of bound printed material.
- Opportunities for hand bookbinders are limited because only a small number of establishments do this highly specialized work.
- Most bookbinders and bindery workers train on the job.
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NPES
The Association for Suppliers of Printing , Publishing and Converting Technologies is a trade association who members manufacture and distribute equipment, systems, software, supplies used in printing, publishing and converting.
http://www.npes.org/education/index.html -
Gaerf
http://www.makeyourmark.org