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Book Binder

Book Binder Trade is a Craftsmen Training course. The duration of this trade course is one year with two semesters a time span of six months each. Bookbinding is a small scale profession. There are many ITIs proving this trade course in the country. The course is important and valuable especially in paper and paper-binding related industries. During the course, students are introduced to different paper activities undertaken in paper industries. They are also told about the changing trends in this industry from time to time. They have many opportunities after its successful passing in private industries and their self-employment.

Book Binder Trade Eligibility

Students should be passed in 8th class examination under 10+2 system of education or its equivalent from a recognised school board.

Book Binder Trade Syllabus

Syllabus of Book Binder as prescribed by various ITIs.

Sr. No.	Subjects of Study
	Practical Training
1	Handling and care of materials, machinery and equipment used for book binding, dress, correct working posture.
2	Cleaning, Lubrication and general maintenance of machinery and equipment.
	Hand folding, standard folding schemes up to 16 pages. Gathering and collating, signatures, their use, making up into books. Stitching thread stitching by hand, wire – stitching. Sewing, hand sewing, rounding and backing. Tipping, knocking, and counting. End-paper, preparation and pasting, ordinary and reinforced. Forwarding operations. Adhesives-preparation and use. Guillotine-handling, care, and use, cutting, trimming. Other operations, ruling, perforating, numbering, eye-letting etc., equipment used, their handling & operation. Flush binding – work involving perforating, numbering, duplicated and triplicate copies. Case binding – simple exercises. Edge decoration, marbling, and indexing, tabbing, blind, and gold tooling. Blocking ink, gold and files materials used their handling and care. Safety – Hazards, preventive measures.
	Instruction (Theory)
1	Brief history of printing, comparative analysis of different printing processes.
2	Outline of the development of the structure of the book and of bookbinding methods.
3	Materials used in binding industry – paper , boards , book cloth leather etc.
4	Paper – standard sizes, divisions and subdivisions, kinds and qualities, handling and care of printed and unprinted sheets of paper.
5	Machinery and equipment used in binding – perforating ruling and guillotine machines, their mechanical and operational features. Handling and care.
6	Folding, standard folding schemes up to 16 pages, knowledge of imposition of simple imposing schemes up to 16 pages. Folding subdivisions.
7	Gathering and collating , signatures – their use
8	Stitching and sewing , hand and machine ,methods
9	Endpaper , kinds , purpose
10	Forwarding, sequence of operations
11	Rounding and backing, case making by hand, tools required, handling and care.
12	Safety – hazards in a binding shop – preventive measures

Book Binder Trade ITIs

Book Binder Trade Required Skills

Students should possess mechanical aptitude, manual dexterity and normal colour vision.
They should have an interest in the current trends and keep up-to-date with re-training and technology changes.
They should also be able to set up and operate specialized equipment and machines that cut, fold, gather, stitch and trim brochures, magazines, books, business forms and other printed material.
They should also be able to use measuring devices and adjust controls to regulate size of cut and machine speed; use hand tools to set up and maintain equipment; run computerized units to start, stop and regulate machines and equipment.

How is Book Binder Trade Beneficial?

After passing the course students are given jobs by binderies, commercial printing companies, newspapers, and magazines and other publishing companies and establishments in both the public and private sectors that have in-house printing, binding and finishing departments.
Students have also bright scopes for further higher studies such as Diploma and Bachelor Degree courses.
They have good job chances in bindery trade shops that specialize in providing binding services for printers without binderies or whose printing production exceeds their binding capabilities; so they students have good chances there.

Book Binder Trade Job Types

Apprentice - Bookbinder
Binder
Binder - Books
Bindery Worker
Bookbinder
Book Binder
Bookbinder Apprentice
Book Conservator
Book Cutter
Book Finisher
Bookmaker
Book Mender
Custom Bookbinder
Cutter
Hand Bindery Assembly Worker
Hand Bookbinder
Paperback Machine Operator
Repairer - Book

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Book Binder Trade Eligibility

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