I probably have a few of the pencils that are red on one end and blue on the other. The red likewise doesn't reproduce in xerography, if memory serves.
Now, things are easier to print but harder to edit. The technology itself is touted to be able to support editing a file on screen without marks at all. The reality is you miss more staring at a screen than holding a page, especially layout issues.
Every time a file moves forward, "ghosts" show up. Word is terrible at this. Then, the artist dumps the file into a package for layout, and all sorts of little gremlins and artefacts appear, lots of treatments like italics and block-quote treatments vanish. God help you if any one machine in the stream has auto-correct or predictive text enabled while the file is still in a word-processor like MS Word.
Its easy to lose control over the whole dam thing now, and computer error is rife and rampant. I always bleed on a final proof in hard copy, word for bloody word, the Editor's Death March of the Red Biro.
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