This document contains a vocational program guide and Career Merit Achievement Plan (Career MAP) for secondary and postsecondary printing and graphic arts programs. The guide contains the following sections: occupational description; program content (curriculum framework and student performance standards); program implementation (student admission criteria, cooperative education, and student organization participation); instructional resources (student reference materials, service manuals, and periodicals); faculty design recommendations with safety, maintenance, and liability considerations; suggested equipment list; and professional development (technical updating and teacher standards with related professional organizations and support services lists). The 11 intended outcomes establish students' proficiency in the following: clerical administrative support operations; mechanical creative support operations; prepress operations; offset press operations; finishing/binding operations; support operations for laboratory projects; prepress operations for laboratory projects; offset press operations for laboratory projects; finishing/binding operations for laboratory projects; employability skills; and entrepreneurship. The Career MAP displays student performance standards and documents the level of achievement on the standards for each of the 11 student outcomes. (NLA)