About the Author

You never know where you’ll end up. I was a chemistry major. Really. But I had a knack for illustration, and I took some college art classes for extra credit. One of my instructors (Michael Parkes, who has since become a well-known fine artist in Europe), suggested that I change my career path from chemistry to commercial art. I thought, “Well, I’ll try it for a while,” and took a job at a printing plant that summer. A funny thing happend: I fell in love with printing, and never went back to the lab. (Thanks, Michael.) Printing turned out to be the ideal environment for someone who held the dual titles of Class Clown and Science Student of the Year in her senior year of high school.

As a prepress production person, I always enjoyed ...

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