ACUP A Midwest Success

"We just can't do it the way we've always done it," said Woodward, production support manager. "That just doesn't fly any more."

The panel's final speaker, Ken Macro, a professor at California Polytechnic State University, offered his thoughts on future technologies that could change the nature of printing. Among them were e-ink and e-paper, which allow the images on a page to change. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, an inventory tool that identifies items using radio waves, are another up-and-coming tool that his students are watching closely.