IV. PRESENT SYSTEM OF HANDLING PRINTING AND PUBLISHING NEEDS, ITS EFFECTIVENESS AND COST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00450R000100100034-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: October 20, 1997
• Content Type: MISC

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Present System of Handling Printing and Publishing
NOTE: Only the Printing Services Division
It should be noted, however, that the
present system does include contractual
printing (discussed in Section V
siderable bulk (NIS Gazetteers) where
it is considered economically infeasible
to handle such printing on an in-house
basis.
Prior to 1967, each Agency component received a
printing requirements. During the year the allocations
printing. Their needs and.
priorities are based on the nature of their work and its
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PSD has been quite effective in meeting these
required completion dates. If upon receiving a job,
however, PSD planners consider the deadline to be
impractical, they will negotiate with the requester to
determine another one. Jobs are then scheduled through
the printing plant with the deadline date the determining`
'factor,
An analysis of the cost of the present system of
printing and publishing. shows a considerable' range in
the price per impression based on the type of printing.
At one extreme is theE::Ioperation which is estimated
program which approximates $.14 per page. Inbetween',
these two,extremes lies the cost of a page produced a
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, the.Special Printing Plant on the seventh floor which
,?PSD estimates at $.015 (the type of printing done at
this plant is, for the most part, the report or memorandum
Another large category of printing -- forms -- is esti
mated to cost $.O0 per impression. This is based on
an $x10 size form in a run of 5,000 and takes into
consideration the fact that three-fourths of the , require-
ments for forms are for re-runs.
Since the Report of 1963 identified ;=.
an indiscriminate use of graphics in DD/I publications,.'
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offices of that Directorate have taken steps to reduce,.
sharply the number of graphics in their publications,
Most Offices now require authorization of graphics by
;a representative of the Office Director, and all
is
;requests for graphics are subjected to review by the
'chiefs of the branches of the Cartography Division,OBGI.
which lend graphic support. The Publications Division
of OBGI performs, the graphic support for allNIS sections
and monitor the need for graphics in these sections.
The Inspector General's Survey of Printing Services'
Division, September 1966, commented on expensive double
typesetting in PSD of NIS manuscript which in the case
of the 30 General Surveys published each year could
of computerized phototypesetting being progressively, used i
for NIS production, it is anticipated that the problem
of extensive changes after the NIS material has been}
sett in type and the resulting expense will be eliminate d
As indicated earlier in this report, '36% of,NIS textual
material received by PSD in the first four months of,, I,
1968 was scheduled for production through the EPIC,systen.`'
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 ,The Exploitation subcommittee(EXSUBCOM) under
COMIREX with membership consisting of representatives
ofDTA, CIA, NSA, Army, Navy, Air Force and NPIC meets
weekly one of.its major functions is to review all
national PT requirements. If approved as valid, these
requirements are prioritized and assigned to NPIC.
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Approximately 70% of the output of the Lithographic
Services Branch is in support of these requirements.
The remaining 30% is expended in fulfilling ad hoc,
NPIC
requirements from USIB Committees, NPIC components
in support of departmental projects. Such support is
provided on a ,continuing
basis to COMIREX, SIC, JAEIC,
GMAIC, NRO, DIA, IAS, OSP, OSA, OPPB,ONE, TSO/TCS/CIA.'
In addition to, its presently assigned responsibilities
NPIC, under the National Tasking,,Pl,an,_ is tasked with
'providin
g graphic, publication, reproduction, and
dissemination support for Basic Support Exploitation
undertaken in the
is Washington areas byllparticipa nts lf,
the plan."- The additional cost to NPIC of, this* ass'
! ment is yet unknown, since the Plan has not been, fu t
~? j,implemented. , ? ..' , , ~~_ ,~:_
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