“…Both coating and printing processes are of major industrial interest, being frequently encountered in the production of paper products, polymer sheets and a wide range of printed electronics. It is the latter which has attracted increasing attention in recent years, as printing of electronic circuitry and wide area coating, for example, lighting or photovoltaic applications (Krebs, 2009) places new requirements on coating and printing process technologies [ (Michels et al, 2014), (Pudas et al, 2005), (Mäkelä et al, 2007), (Jin et al, 2010), (Jalkanen et al, 2012), (Kumar, 2015)]. …”