DIGITAL Digest

ORLANDO—Just 10 short years ago, the group now known as the Research & Engineering Council of NAPL held the first conference in its Digital Smart Factory series. At that 1997 meeting, the hot topic was CIP3, introduced at Drupa 95 just two years earlier.

In subsequent meetings, vendors, printers and consultants have worked to iron out problems in the evolving software and electronics, and move toward the automation necessary to remain competitive in an age of electronic media.