The rate training manual and nonresident career course (RTM/NRCC) form is a self-study package that will enable third class and second class lithographers to fulfill the requirements for that rating. Chapter one provides a brief history of printing and discusses the duties and qualifications of the Navy lithographer. Chapters two through eighteen are composed of such course topics as job planning, cold type composition, artwork preparation, photographic equipment, photographic materials, the line negative, the halftone negative, negative corrections and stripping, platemaking, the offset press, the multilith 1250, the A. B. Dick Offset Duplicator (Model 350), the ATF 20 and 20A Presses, paper and ink, bindery equipment, letterpress printing, and shop administration. Numerous diagrams and illustrations are included throughout. The document concludes with four appendixes of additional materials: reference reading, a formulary, maintenance of lithographic equipment, and a glossary. A subject index and the assignment booklet (a component) of the Nonresident Career Course conclude the document. (BP)