Bookbinder Salary
in Nebraska, United States

• Cuts, assembles, glues, and sews components to bind books, according to specification, using automatic and manually operated machines, handtools, and equipment: folds printed sheets to form signatures (pages) and assembles signatures in numerical order to form book body.
• Attaches endpapers to top and bottom of book body.
• Sews signatures and endpapers together along spine of book body, using sewing machine, or glues endpapers and signatures together along spine, using brush or glue machine.
• Compresses sewed or glued signatures to reduce book to required thickness, using handpress or smashing machine.
• Trims edges of book to size, using cutting or book trimming machine or hand cutter.
• Inserts book body in device that forms back edge of book into convex shape and produces grooves to facilitate attachment of cover.
• Applies glue to back of book, using brush or glue machine, and attaches cloth backing and headband.
• Applies color to edges of signatures, using brush, pad, or atomizer.
• Cuts binder board to specified dimension, using board shears, hand cutter, or cutting machine.
• Cuts cover material, such as leather or cloth, to specified dimensions and fits and glues material to binder board manually or by machine.
• Glues outside endpapers to cover.
• Places bound book in press that exerts pressure on cover until glue dries.
• May imprint and emboss lettering, designs, or numbers on cover, using gold, silver, or colored foil and stamping machine.
• May pack, weigh, and stack books on pallet for shipment.
• May specialize in repairing and rebinding damaged or worn books for resale or reuse.

Bookbinder Job Prevalence in Nebraska, United States

Job family: Print Binding and Finishing Workers

Job family population: 48,680

Estimated population of Bookbinder jobs: 23,160

Rate of error: 2.9%