H.A.C. -Graphic Arts Traditional Geocache
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Graphic Arts
You will be looking for a decon container not too far off the
trail. Hidden away in this area is a really peaceful park. Only
hunt this between the hours of 6:00 am and 10:00 pm.
Please write your experience in the log book, other that signing
and dating it only. That's what it's for.
The field of graphic
arts includes many kinds of work in the printing and publishing
industries. Graphic arts professionals are involved in the creation
of all kinds of printed communication, from business cards to books
to billboards. The scope of printing communications is huge.
Requirements for the merit badge not the cache:
1. Review with your counselor the processes for producing printed
communications: offset lithography, screen process printing,
electronic/digital, relief, and gravure. 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 (flier, T-shirt, program, form, etc.) and
produce it. Explain your decisions for the typeface or typefaces
you use and the way you arrange the elements in your design.
Explain which printing process is best suited for printing your
design. If desktop publishing hardware and software are available,
identify what hardware and software would be appropriate for
outputting your design.
4. Produce the design you created for requirement 3 using one of
the following printing processes:
1. Offset lithography
Make a layout and then produce a plate using a process approved by
your counselor. Run the plate and print at least 50 copies.
2. 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.
3. Electronic/digital printing
Make a layout in electronic form, download it to the press or
printer, and run 50 copies. If no electronic interface to the press
or printer is available, you may print and scan a paper copy of the
layout.
4. Relief printing
Prepare a layout or set the necessary type. Make a plate or lock up
the form. Use this to print 50 copies.
5. Review the following postpress operations with your
counselor:
1. Discuss the finishing operations of padding, drilling, cutting,
and trimming.
2. Collect, describe, or identify examples of the following types
of binding: 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, and then describe the highlights of
your visit:
1. Visit a newspaper printing plant: Follow a story from the editor
to the press.
2. Visit a commercial or in-plant printing facility: Follow a job
from beginning to end.
3. Visit a school's graphic arts program: Find out what courses are
available and what the prerequisites are.
4. 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.
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