Printing for fabrication of functionalities requires diverse materials and techniques. Unlike graphic products functional devices are produced in a large sequence of production steps that differ in techniques as well as in materials. Moreover, their process parameters can vary over magnitudes. Just for the reason of different manufacturing speeds, press layouts like 6 colour + lacquer will not be feasible. How can different techniques and processes be integrated into one substrate transport concept? The present talk discusses this question focusing on technological and economic parameters. Especially drying, curing and sintering processes are significant for production of functional layers. They are time consuming to be completed. Gravure printing on the other hand requires high printing speeds to achieve high quality. Once implemented, a substrate transport system with variable speeds offers opportunities for the process definition and eliminates the need of wide-stretched assemblies. Our approach to meet those conflicting objectives is a substrate transport concept named sheet-on-shuttle. We discuss the characteristics of our lab scale substrate transport system, the measures taken to design a system suitable for fabrication and current challenges.