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Unit/Standard Number | Graphic Communications, Other CIP 10.0399 Task Grid | Proficiency Level Achieved: (X) Indicates Competency Achieved to Industry Proficiency Level
 | Secondary Competency Task List
100 | JOB PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
101 | Perform duties associated with positive customer relations.
102 | Estimate job costs.
103 | Complete customer invoices.
104 | Complete production information on job jacket/ticket.
105 | Match job specifications with production processes.
106 | Plan and coordinate production jobs.
107 | Schedule resources for job production.
108 | Monitor production.
109 | Track incoming customers requests.
200 | ART AND COPY PREPARATION
201 | Demonstrate appropriate selection of font for design principle.
202 | Identify the three steps in creating a layout (thumbnail, rough and comprehensive).
203 | Explain the design process workflow.
300 | ELECTRONIC IMAGING
301 | Explain how to plan for a production of products and package material.
302 | Identify the various kinds of items that can be designed and produced using electronic publishing.
303 | Identify the principles of color theory.
304 | Illustrate the electronic production flow of print production.
305 | Demonstrate appropriate usage of  software for word processing, graphic, scanning and page layout.
306 | Employ the use of a gauge to demonstrate ability to measure.
307 | Identify display (headline) type and body (text) type by their point sizes and styles.
308 | Identify the basic type styles and their uses.
309 | Demonstrate letter spacing, kerning and leading.
310 | Demonstrate the type arrangements: flush left, ragged right, flush right, ragged left, centered and justified.
311 | Use electronic dictionary and spell checker.
312 | Create a design/publication.
313 | Create a full page document using current industry standard page layout application.
314 | Create a PDF file created to industry specifications.
315 | Manipulate a vector image using a current industry standard software.
316 | Manipulate a bitmapped image using a current industry standard software.
317 | Identify the different file types and their uses.
318 | Integrate graphics from an existing file into a page layout.
319 | [NAME] as it applies to a digitally using a page layout.
320 | Explain the CIP4 protocol and how it is used in the printing plant.
321 | Identify color traps on a press sheet.
322 | Produce a series of computer sketches for layouts incorporating appropriate marks. (i.e., Gutters, registration marks, fold lines, etc.)
323 | List types of press sheet impositions.
400 | IMAGE ACQUISITION AND MANIPULATION
401 | Evaluate pixel resolution as it relates to output.
402 | Demonstrate the ability to acquire electronic images from various digital devices. (i.e., scanner, digital camera, etc.).
403 | [NAME] digital image from RGB to CMYK for production.
404 | [NAME] a four color image to a halftone, or duotone, using a standard industry software.
500 | PLATEMAKING
501 | Prepare plates (proofing for printing, process and store).
502 | Make additions, deletions and repairs to plate.
503 | Make plates for multi-color work.
504 | Output plates with control and printer's marks.
600 | PRESS
601 | Determine grain direction of paper.
602 | Handle and jog paper stock (wire/felt, watermarks, carbonless sequence).
603 | Mix and test ink for printing using ink color chart for mixing requirements.
604 | Mix fountain solutions using appropriate ratios.
605 | Make-ready paper path for print production.
606 | [NAME] inking systems.
607 | [NAME] dampening systems.
608 | Print a single color job on various stock.
609 | Print a single color job two-sided.
610 | Compare different types of feed systems and explain their differences.
611 | Print different types of impositions.
612 | Define the organizations that set the printing industry standards.
613 | Print a multi color job.
614 | Perform a simple, partial or full make ready on an offset press.
615 | Perform major clean up and basic maintenance.
616 | Install and set blanket on a press.
617 | Clean and secure duplicator for downtime.
618 | Evaluate print quality devices (i.e. star targets, color bars, etc.) and make needed adjustments to satisfy industry standards.
619 | Describe effective viewing conditions and equipment for monitoring color accuracy.
620 | Line up job according to customer proof.
621 | Mount Plate on duplicator to Industry standards.
622 | Pack blanket according to industry standards.
623 | Identify all safety devices on an offset press.
624 | Develop  production notes in an appropriate format.
625 | Identify the press systems.
626 | Allocate colors to the printing units.
627 | Define the difference between spot colors and process colors.
628 | Set and record ink profile.
629 | Identify, troubleshoot and correct print defects.
630 | Analyze printed sheet and match to proof.
631 | Demonstrate knowledge of paper classifications, paper properties and paper concerns in the operation press applications.
632 | Makeready delivery systems.
633 | Identify the difference spot and flood varnish.
700 | BINDERY
701 | Use folding equipment to produce various folding operations.
702 | Perform saddle stitching and perfect binding.
703 | Use packaging and shrink wrapping equipment.
704 | Properly handle printed substrates.
705 | Explain the importance of when stock squaring is required.
706 | Perform required maintenance on paper cutter.
707 | Demonstrate the operation of a collation machine.
708 | Setting the staple position.
709 | Set up stitcher to customer specifications.
710 | Set up for a perfing job and check with proof.
711 | Set up for a numbering job.
712 | Demonstrate basic paper counting techniques, such as measurement by ream marker, weight, and caliper.
713 | Set up folding equipment to slit, perforate, and score.
714 | Demonstrate how to set up and properly use programmable cutters.
715 | Perform required maintenance on a folder.
716 | Set up and use a paper drill to produce a drilled job.
717 | Set up folder according to customer specifications.
718 | Set up perfect binder according to job specifications.
719 | Make needed adjustments to maintain fold specifications.
720 | Properly pad notepads.