Student Name________________________________Instructor Name_________________________________
High School or Vocational Center_________________________________________Grade________________
COMPETENCY RECORD FOR ARTICULATION
Muskegon Community College
Graphic Design
Please check below each skill the student has mastered as described, with 80 percent accuracy, or with an A or
B grade. The skills needed for articulation of each course are listed.
GRD 107
Image Assembly
2 Credit Hours
Task
Read and interpret job tickets to achieve the desired results
Develop good work habits
Write instruction for impostion and platemaking
Gain insight into the creative and production aspects of a printed job
Work within time and quality constraints
Perform step and repeat programming
Demonstrates a working knowledge of and perform preflighting tasks
Become familiar with proofing systems
Build and impose multipage documents
Handle simple and complex film output
File Formats
a. .eps
b. .tif
c. .jpg
d. .ai
e. .cdr
f. .bmp
g. .pict
h. .pdf
Output
a. PCL
b. Postscript
c. RIP
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory
Task
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory
Font and font conflicts
Traps
Spot and process color
Color models
Unlinked files
Imposition
a. Folds
b. Pagination
c. Pagination software
Proofing systems
Troubleshooting
Instructor’s Signature___________________________________________________Date_________________
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