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Defense Department form, series DD, number 843. Full title: DD Form 843, Requisition for Printing and Binding Service, July 1955. Function: Requisition For< Printing and Binding Service. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher status: not stated.
Governing directive: not stated. Responsible office: not stated. The DD designation signals joint scope — all military departments, combatant commands and defense agencies draw on a single edition of the document.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
The download set covers PDF. Document length is 1 pages with about 136 entry fields.
Pdf serves as the base format. In the fillable variant, each box is an interactive field that holds typed text inside the document. In the flat printable variant, no fields exist — the page prints as a blank to be completed by hand. Typed entries survive transmission; handwriting does not always survive scanning.
What the form asks for
- Fund. Press space bar to mark X in first box if appropriated, second box if non-appropriated.
- Date.
- Activity order number.
- Job number, for plant use only.
- From: originating agency, person to contact and telephone extension.
- To.
- Thru: appropriate printing control authority.
- 1. Title of publication.
- 2. Publication number and date.
- 3. Purpose, function, economies effected and concurrences.
- 4. Quantity in: sheets.
- Quantity in: books.
- Quantity in: pads.
- Quantity in: sets.
- Quantity in: other (specify in item 13).
- 4.a. Partial delivery requested: Date.
- Quantity.
- 4.b. Complete delivery requested: Date.
- Quantity.
- 6. Number of pages.
- 5. Size of publication: a. trim size: enter width.
- 5.a. Length of trim size.
- 5.b. Folded to: width.
- 5.b. Length.
The document is filled from the top down. Identification precedes substance, substance precedes certification. Fields lower on the page are commonly keyed to entries made above them.
Edition in use: not stated. Because DD forms are revised at Department level and distributed to all services at once, an obsolete printing may not match the fields an office expects. The date is printed on the form face.
Field-level instructions appear on the form itself and in not stated. The directive is the controlling text.
The completed document moves to the office named in not stated or in local guidance. A retained copy is conventional practice.
Cross-referenced forms are found through the numbering system. The DD sequence is Department-level and unified, which means a number cited on the page identifies one document across the whole Department.
A DD number and a DA number may appear in the same instruction without being related. DA forms belong to the Army alone; DD forms belong to the Department and are administered at Department level. The sequences are independent.
Revision occurs when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when statutory notice language is amended. Verification of the edition date at download addresses all three.
The material here is descriptive. Nothing on the page constitutes legal or procedural advice, and no statement here determines whether a submitted form will be accepted. Such questions go to not stated, a servicing administrative office, or the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 843?
- DD Form 843, Requisition for Printing and Binding Service, July 1955
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?