1. Review with your counselor the processes for producing printed communications: offset lithography, screen printing, gravure, flexography, electronic/digital, and letterpress. You may show samples or draw diagrams to help with your description.
2. Explain the difference between continuous tone, line,
and halftone artwork. Describe how it can be created and/or
stored in a computer.
3. Design a printed piece for your troop (flyer, T-shirt,
program, form, etc.) to be produced for their use. Explain
your decisions for the typeface usage and element
arrangement in your design. Explain which printing process
is best suited for printing your design. If desktop
publishing hardware and software is available, identify what
would be appropriate for outputting your design.
4. Produce your design from above using one of the
following printing processes:
A.. Offset lithography or Flexography
Make a paste-up, and produce a plate using a process approved by your counselor. Run the plate and print at least 50 copies.
B. Screen process printing
Make a hand-cut or photographic stencil and attach it to a screen that you have prepared. Mask the screen and print at least 20 copies.
C. Electronic/Digital Printing
Make a master in electronic form, download it to the press or printer, and run 50 copies. A paper master may be scanned if no electronic interface to the press or printer is available.
D. Letterpress
Set the necessary type, including any appropriate engraving, and lockup your composition in a chase for printing. Use this form to print 50 copies.
5. Review the following post-press operations with your
counselor:
A. Discuss the finishing operations of padding,
drilling, cutting and trimming.
B. Collect, describe or identify examples of the following bindery types: perfect, spiral, plastic comb, saddle stitched and case.
6. Identify three career opportunities in graphic arts
and tell how you can prepare for them.
7. Do one of the following, then describe the highlights
of your visit:
A. Visit a newspaper printing plant. Follow a
story from the editor to the press.
B. Visit a commercial or in-plant printing facility. Follow a job from beginning to end.
C. Visit three Web sites on the Internet that belong to graphic arts professional organizations and/or printing related companies (suppliers, manufacturers, printers). Download product or service information from two of the sites.
There is a fledgling web site for the Graphic Arts Merit Badge at http://wizard.district125.k12.il.us/faculty/tloch/GAMB.html.
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