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What did a Press Operator do?

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ErikaH

ErikaH Report 30 Dec 2006 15:35

Press Operators when described as such are normally in Engineering. Reg

Sharon

Sharon Report 30 Dec 2006 14:36

Thank you all for your help.....sounds like i was way off! lol...

Unknown

Unknown Report 30 Dec 2006 13:53

Could be either, but my husband works a printing press in a newspaper, if thats any help.

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 30 Dec 2006 13:46

hubby was a press operator at one time ,worked in an engineering factory working a pressing machine that did metal parts cutouts from sheet metal

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Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Her Indoors

Her Indoors Report 30 Dec 2006 13:40

More likely to be engineering. A press bends sheet metal between shaped tools to make all sorts of products and components: think car body panels, appliance cabinets, saucepans, in fact almost anything. I have never heard the expression used in connection with printing. Someone who operates a printing press is a printer.

Jess Bow Bag

Jess Bow Bag Report 30 Dec 2006 13:33

Printing press quite probably

Sharon

Sharon Report 30 Dec 2006 13:27

I have just got my grandads death cert. and on it, its saying he was a press operator when he died....does any body know what this meant or where i could go to find out what he did. I firstly thought that maybe he worked in newspaper or magazine industry then thought well it could have been that he pressed clothes....