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

Joel Shulman, editor, Flexographic Technical Association: Flexographic printing technology will overtake all other printing technologies because it has color process capability equal to gravure and offset, prints on more substrates than any other process, is less costly for average and short runs in web operations, and is environmentally more acceptable. [Shulman at least gets points for being such a strong advocate for his industry segment.]