A professional who tends equipment to reproduce braille-embossed pages, using one of following methods. Responsibilities include:

• (1) Places master page on screen bed.
• Places roll of treated paper on stand.
• Threads paper through equipment and locks paper in clamping frame.
• Pulls heat unit over clamping frame.
• Depresses pedal or handle to lower clamping frame onto screen bed and to create vacuum that forms braille impressions.
• Pushes heat unit from bed.
• Releases pedal or handle to raise clamping frame, and releases catch on frame to draw reproduced copy through equipment.
• Repeats process to make required number of copies.
• Cuts copies apart, using scissors.
• Writes identifying information, such as page number or title, on each copy.
• (2) Positions master page on screen bed.
• Places sheet of heat-sensitive plastic paper over page and lowers clamping frame to lock page into position on bed.
• Pulls heat unit over clamping frame to activate vacuum pump trip-lever.
• Holds heat unit over frame to form braille impressions.
• Pushes heat unit from bed to release vacuum.
• Raises frame to release individual copy.
• Repeats process to make required number of copies.
• Most workers in this occupation are blind.