Executive Outlook Conference Reveals Top 12 Technologies Most Critical to Printers' Survival

2. Multiple Products
Acquiring and implementing the knowledge, skills and technologies necessary to leverage print content and formats into a variety of multiple products/multiple media (including 'e') as the most important going-forward capability ranked second in the overall list.

3. Automation
The incorporation of automation into print production, starting with the use of stand-alone automated systems or equipment and evolving into integrated automation moving toward 'lights-out or hands-off manufacturing.' The approach includes but is not limited to incorporating JDF/JMF dialog between and among production and management systems.