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Content Outline for the CDC Exam
I. Business Systems and Procedures
A. Basic Business Functions
1. Accounts Payable Cycle
2. Accounts Receivable Cycle
3. Accounting Function
4. Special Industry Applications
5. Basic Records
6. Source Documents
7. Freight Issues
B. Document Analysis
1. Need for Document
2. Productivity Implications
3. Usage and Flowcharts
4. Retention and Records Management
5. Graphics
6. Duplicate Information
7. Error Reduction
8. Organization of Data
C. Document Management Systems
1. Program Structure
a. Filing System
b. Numbering System
2. Procurement
a. Economic Order Quantity
b. Ordering Cycles
c. Combination Ordering
3. Inventory Management and Reporting
4. Warehousing and Distribution
5. Management and Reporting
D. Electronic Document Systems
1. Systems Conversion
2. Productivity Implications
E. Trade Customs
II. Products and Technology
A. Products
1. Continuous
2. Unit Sets
3. Cut Sheets & Self-Mailers
4. Envelopes
5. Continuous Mailers and Cross-Web Glued Products
6. Tags
7. Labels
8. Label/Form Combinations
9. One-Write/Pegboard
10. Binders
11. Promotional/Commercial
12. Checks
13. Stencils
14. Sales and Manifold Books
15. Plastic Cards
16. Other (Registers, Affixed to Carriers, etc.)
B. Technology
1. Bar Codes
2. MICR
3. Electronic Forms
4. OCR/OMR
5. Modulus Numbering
6. EDI
7. Other
III. Design and Construction
A. Basics of Document Design
1. Types
2. Rules
3. Spacing
4. Box Design
5. Captions, Columns, Item Sequence
6. Lockup
7. Form Title/Designating Number
8. Withholding/Selectively Transferring Data
9. Combined Forms Design
10. Postal Regulations
11. Electronic Form Design
B. Graphics
1. Ink
2. Paper and Other Material
3. Typography
4. Special Effects
C. Construction/Design/Specifications
1. Continuous Fastening
2. Equipment Considerations
3. Mailers (Cross-Web Glued)
4. Demand Printer Forms
5. Manifolding and Legibility
6. Cut Sheets
7. Cut Sheet Mailers
8. Unit Sets
9. Continuous
10. Label/Form Combinations
11. Labels
12. Envelopes
13. Checks
14. Tags
15. Pegboard and Sales Books
16. Paper Roll Products
17. Other Form-Related Products
D. Document Security
IV. Materials
A. Paper
1. Types
2. Specialty Papers
3. Paper Tests
4. Basis Weight
5. Basic Size
6. Equivalent Weight
7. Grades
8. Characteristics
B. Other Substrata
1. Face Materials (Labels)
2. Plastics
3. Spun Olefin
4. Other
C. Carbon
1. Characteristics
2. Specialty Carbons
D. Carbonless Paper
1. Types
2. Weights
3. Tests
4. Characteristics
5. Coating Systems
E. Ink
1. Types
2. Ink Color Matching System
3. Tests
4. Characteristics
5. Process Color
F. Adhesive Materials
1. Types
2. Tests
3. Characteristics
V. Production
A. Basic Printing Processes
1. Lithography/Planographic
2. Intaglio
3. Screen
4. Flexography
5. Letterpress
6. Digital/Variable Imaging
B. Prepress
1. Equipment
2. Processes
3. Materials
4. Proofs
C. Production Equipment
1. Presses/Electronic Printers
2. Collators
3. Off Line
4. Bindery
5. Pack-to-Pack
6. Other
D. Pricing
E. Packaging Specifications
VI. Processing and Handling Equipment
A. Computer Printers/Output Devices
1. Impact
2. Non-Impact
B. Forms Handling Equipment
1. Bursters
2. Decollators
3. Cutters
4. Imprinters
5. Other
C. Mailing/Lettershop Equipment
D. Automated Data Entry
1. OCR/OMR
2. MICR
3. Bar Coding
4. Scanners
5. Other