A RPTR WAS SURPRISED BY TRACON DEP CTL WHEN A SID WAS ISSUED ON INITIAL CLB.

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WE WERE FILED 'SLC SLC 094 MTU 303 MTU; ALS; AMA; MQP; TORNN; IAH.' THE PDC HAD THAT ROUTING; BUT WE FAILED TO SEE THE ADDITION OF 'FFU 3; HVE; CIM; AMA...' AFTER DEP; THE CTLR CLRED US TO FFU; THEN CONTINUE THE FFU 3 DEP. THE CAPT TOLD THE CTLR INITIALLY THAT WE DID NOT HAVE THAT CLRNC; BELIEVING THE FILED PLAN AS ALSO BEING THE ATC CLRNC PLAN. ANOTHER CHK OF THE PDC REVEALED THE MISREAD PART (FFU 3 HVE; DVC; CIM; AMA). AFTER A VECTOR DIRECT TO FFU (WHICH IS ACTUALLY PART OF THE FFU 3 DEP PROC) AND READING-FOLLOWING THE FFU 3 DEP; THE FLT CONTINUED UNEVENTFULLY. THE PROB AROSE FROM A MISINTERPRETATION OF THE WRITTEN PDC CLRNC COMBINED WITH THE FILED ROUTE (ALL BEING PRINTED IN THE SAME BLOCK OF SPACE WITH NO DELINEATION SEPARATING THE TWO). IT WOULD BE MUCH CLRER IF THIS ATC CLRNC STOOD ALONE WITHOUT ANY OTHER FORM OF ROUTING WRITTEN BY IT. IF IT IS 'AS FILED;' JUST PRINT 'AS FILED;' IF IT IS AMENDED SAY SO. ALL IT TAKES IS A PRINTER WEAK ON INK AND YOU CAN MISS SOME DOT OR DASH. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE RPTR FLIES THE B737-300. HE UNDERSTANDS THAT THE PDC FORMAT IS SET BY HIS ACR AND HE HAS TRIED TO GET IT TO STANDARDIZE. THE CREW WAS SURPRISED BY TRACON GIVING A FFU 3 SID. THERE WAS NO TRACK DEV OR LOSS OF SEP. THE CAPT CALLED SLC TRACON LATER TO DETERMINE THIS. THE RPTR IS CONCERNED THAT THERE ARE SO MANY FORMATS OF THE PDC AND THE DIFFICULTY OF FINDING THE LATEST INFO.