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I also came from a print production background. I went from being a counter girl in a copy shop to doing paste-up, shooting PMT's (remember those?), veloxes, and negs….graduated to stripping/platemaking, then ran a shop for a while. Learned how to run AB Dick 360 press (more modern than a Multi), cutter, folder, padding press. 

You mentioned the trick of putting a different color of ink on each end of the ink fountain? We used to do graduated color that way. Of course, it was unpredictable, inconsistent, and really just an oddity. Psychedelic!

Now I broker all my printing so I don't ruin my manicure any more! (No more ink stains or getting high on blanket wash fumes!) I'm still on CS2 because we're struggling here but I won't get into that, except to say that everyone now wants “the paperless office,” which means the business form company I work for is in the pits right now!

Oh dear, no one said there would math involved! Good thing I have a calculator!