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Through much of the late 80s and 90s I worked at several print shops in Toronto as a camera operator and film stripper. We worked with 4-color process (black/cyan/magenta/yellow)...so I got to know the hands-on/old school approach to 4-color film separation and final neg prep. I always found it fascinating - the trick was being accurate with the film registration (lining up the film on top of one another before making the final negs).
Have fun with it. It's cool to see the final output after all the work goes into it. Digital is easy and cheap by comparison these days...but its invaluable to know the old manual process behind the color separation and how everything works together.
I always considered my days in the print industry to be good experience later when I moved into digital photography, image manipulation and digital post-edit production years later.
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