Abstract: A method of automatically altering the messages for prompting an operator, depending upon the level of operator training, in a reproduction machine having a control and user interface with display including the steps of programming the machine at a first level, recognizing the programming of the machine at the first level to represent either trained or untrained operator programming, responding to the recognition of either trained or untrained operator programming at the first level for providing either a trained sequence of operator prompts or an untrained sequence of operator prompts, programming the machine at a second level after completion of the programming at the first level, recognizing the programming of the machine at the second level to be either trained or untrained operator programming, and responding to the recognition of either trained or untrained operator programming at the second level for providing either a trained sequence of operator prompts or an untrained sequence of operator prompts.