PRINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY DIVISION WEEKLY REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING 01 NOVEMBER-07 NOVEMBER 1984

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87-00352R000200020038-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: November 7, 1984
• Content Type: REPORT

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PRINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY DIVISION
WEEKLY REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING
01 November - 07 November 1984
During the Preceding Week
I. Items or Events of Major Interest that have Occurred
A. ADP Activities:
1. Digital Prepress: The initial delivery of
hardware and software for the Printing and Photography
Division's (P&PD) Digital Prepress system is scheduled for
30 November $'Xyvision, Inc., the system manufacturer, has
confirmed production of P&PD's system and is conducting a
Factory Acceptance Test this week. Site Preparation work is
underway to ensure space, power, and environment
requirements are available by delivery time.
2. Atex Release 4 Upgrade: System Staff and
Prepress personnel have accelerated their efforts to
complete the Atex Release 4 installation in the Main Plant.-
Atex personnel installed a second disc drive on the Release
4 system, which will simplify data transfer from the Release
3 to the Release 4 system. Except for the Camex Proformer
and the Dest OCR (Optical Character Reader), all production
jobs and devices shouuld be converted by Tuesday, 13
November.
B. Micrographic Activities: Members of P&PD met with
Office of Data Processing (ODP) to discuss enhancements to
the Autofiche facility, an electronic interface between the
ODP mainframe VM and COM Center used to create alphanumeric
microfilm. The enhancements will be designed to provide a
quick and easy service to infrequent users while providing
the COM Center automated tracking and accounting
capabilities.
C. Safety: I (Safety Staff (SS),
DDA, visited P&PD on Thursday, 01 November in response to
the SS's concern over three back injuries within a short
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period of time suffered by P&PD Prepress personnel. A video
tape on proper lifting techniques was shown to all dayshift
Prepress employees, followed by a general question and
O answer session with the SS representative. Several
problem/concern areas were identifie
briefed the Division Safety Officer and the Chief, Office of
Management Support, n P '?Li
- 'D P) and offered recommendations to correct some of
the problems.
D. Television Support:
1. The P&PD based foreign standards converter for
the videotape replication system was brought on-line on 5
November 1984 in time to meet a priority deadline of 7
November 1984 from the DDO,
This new unit will allow us to satisfy customer requirements
for quick turnaround of foreign broadcast materials to a
format that is compatible with video equipment of US
manufacture. At the moment, we are limited to one-way
conversions (foreign to US). The backordered options for
this unit are expected to arrive by the end of this month.
At that time, we will be able to convert US video into
foreign standards for playback overseas.
2. Photography Branch personnel responded to an
unusual request from a component of the DDO--the
reconstruction of two badly damaged videotapes. Since the
Branch is not set up to support this requirement, the
salvaging procedure had to be accomplished manually to
prevent further damage to the original videotape. Copies of
the reconstructed tapes were given to a very satisfied
customer is less than 16 hours.
E. Miscellaneous:
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Analytical Support Group: Representatives from
Systems Staff and Prepress Branch met with representatives
of the Office of Current Production and Analytic Support
(O/CPAS), and two Analytical Support Group (ASG)/DDI to
discuss inputting finished intelligence documents to VM via
magnetic tape. This procedure will be a precursor to the
two-way bisynchronous line from ETECS to VM. Tests will be
run during the next week to ten days to determine the
practicality of performing this service in terms of resource
requirements from the ETECS center.
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II. Significant Events Anticipated During the Coming Week
Press Branch: After inspecting a recent shipment of
the new Hifold map paper, a representative of Georgia
Pacific agreed to replace all 30 skids. The replacement
paper should arrive in the coming week.
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