A professional who performs any combination of following duties in marking, sorting, and recording soiled garments, linens, and other articles received for cleaning and laundering. Respnsibilities include:

• Opens bundle or bag and spreads articles on worktable.
• Examines articles and records defects, such as holes, stains, tears, and ripped seams.
• Compares articles with customer's listing or records by hand or by using listing-pricing machine.
• Affixes or marks customer-identifying symbols on soiled articles by one of following methods:
• Adjusts numbered disks of marking machine by hand to set code number; places article or cloth tag under disks; depresses pedal or pulls lever that forces disks against article or tag to print code; pins or staples tag to article.
• Writes code number on garment or tag with pen and waterproof ink; pins, staples, or sews tag to garment.
• Positions garment under stapling machine and pulls lever that staples short length of tape to garment; writes identifying code on tape.
• Presses lever of clipping machine that fastens metal clip to garment.
• Depresses keys of marking machine that prints identifying symbol on garment.
• Seals identification tape on article, using patching machine and adhesive tape.

• Routes defective articles to mender for repairs.
• Sorts articles according to color, degree of soil, and type of materials or treatment.
• Measures articles with yardstick or measuring tape and records measurements to ensure articles are finished to original size.
• Removes buttons, ornaments, and other trimmings from soiled garments and replaces buttons on cleaned garments.
• Places sorted articles in different colored nets or ties articles in bundles and attaches tags that indicate work to be performed, such as method of cleaning, articles to be starched or tinted, and pretreatment of stained articles.
• Counts finished articles for completeness of order and verifies count with plant records.