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DOT Code: 221.167-010

Industry: print. & pub.

Coordinates activities of workers engaged in setting of copy into type: Examines, apportions, and distributes editorial and classified advertising copy to Compositors (print. & pub.); Linotype Operators (print. & pub.); or Monotype-Keyboard Operators (machinery mfg.; print. & pub.). Examines copy to determine time and date for publication, type style, and size specified for headings and body. Determines size of sections to be cut and distributed, according to time available for setting type. Cuts copy into sections, marks sections with type size if cuts are to be used, and distributes to composing room. May mark sections to aid in assembling type and cuts in galley.

GOE: 05.10.05 STRENGTH: S GED: R4 M3 L3 SVP: 8 DLU: 77