Pagination equipment is just a tool, an advanced version of pen and paper, the typewriter, or whatever system you are using now. With a little training and a little effort, you'll soon be making good use of your new tool. You'll also find that pagination affects the way you work and the ways in which copy and pages move through your newsroom. While these changes can seem as jarring as the new technology itself, they can also be liberating. For instance, pagination can make it easier for various parts of your newsroom to collaborate creatively.
Pagination can enable teams to work together more smoothly.
Benefits beyond the bottom line Pagination offers you greater control over the final product that readers see, and new ways to structure your work. Pages can come together earlier in the newsroom rather than later in composing. Reporters, editors, photographers and artists who want to can look at how their work plays on a page, look at that element's content, design, weight and position relative to other elements on the page, and fine-tune accordingly. Editors can see how much a story needs to be trimmed and go about it intelligently by hunting for widows and trims throughout rather than hacking from the bottom because there isn't time to rewrap type in composing. Reporters can even help trim their own copy - and see on the screen if it fits.