The recession in Europe will prompt more printers to invest in automation as a means of curbing costs and raising productivity in an effort to bolster their profitability. One objective will be to gain a tighter grip on their expenditure on inks, paper and other inputs because computerized workflow systems, which is part of the drive to automation, help highlight exactly where the money is being spent. In economic hard times, automation will be a means of survival for many printers because of ...