CEPTAM Tech A Book Binder Syllabus

CEPTAM Book Binder Technician Syllabus

DRDO Technician Recruitment Exam for Book Binder Trade will be conducted  in near future The candidates those already apply for DRDO CEPTAM 10 Technician posts for Book Binder trade searching the CEPTAM Book Binder Syllabus. Here, we are publishing the basic idea about syllabus for the exam.

CEPTAM Technician Recruitment Exam will consist of 50 questions on General Awareness, General Intelligence, Reasoning Ability, General Science and 100 questions on Book Binder Trade Theory based on ITI book binder Course. So, Subject knowledge is must because 2/3 questions on the subject knowledge.

DRDO CEPTAM 10 Technician Syllabus for Book Binder Trade –

History of Printing, Comparative analysis of different printing processes.
Outline of the development of the structure of the book and of bookbinding methods.
Materials used in binding industry – paper, boards, book cloth, leather etc.
Paper – Standard sizes, divisions and sub divisions, kind and qualities, handling and care of printed and unprinted sheets of paper.
Machinery and equipment used in binding – perforating ruling and guillotine machines, their mechanical and operational features, handling and care.
Folding, standard folding schemes up to 16 pages, knowledge of imposition of simple imposing schemes up to 16 pages. Folding subdivisions.
Gathering and collating, signatures – their use
Stitching and sewing, hand and machine, methods
Endpaper, kinds, purpose
Forwarding, sequence of operations
Rounding and backing, case making by hand, tools required, handling and care.
Safety – hazards in a binding shop- preventive measures.
Adhesives – preparation and use
Other Operations like ruling, perforating, numbering, eye-letting etc., equipment used, their handling & Operation.
Flush binding – Work involving perforating, numbering, duplicated and triplicate copies.
Case binding
Edge decoration, marbling and indexing, tabbing, blind and gold tooling.
Blocking ink, gold and files materials used their handling and care
Tipping, knocking and counting