50th: Long Road to Automation — From High Touch to Hi Tech

The recap included a look at developments that it even labeled as "blue sky." Among the more interesting:

o Computer-controlled paper manufacturing and demand printing will be accomplished in-line at the same site. Tanked substrate fluid would be converted into a printing surface at the feeder end of the press and the printed product would be delivered at the output end, bound and wrapped, ready for the truck. [Wow, on-demand printing is one thing, but on-demand paper? That falls into the category of a solution in search of a problem.]