This meant the paper required less funding from the BSC, and was able to put the savings toward technological advancement. The T-D is the primary contributor to the BSC's reserve fund. The new purchases have dramatically changed the production process of the paper. The staff used to manually paste together each page and send the pages to the printer. Now, the pages are sent to the printer on a single ZIP disk.
Publishing digitally eliminates the possibilities of mistakes in the paste-up process.
It had fallen off after pasting up. Grenz explained that these kind of mistakes will not take place with digital production. The photography process has also changed. The staff used to send photos to the printer where they had to be specially processed for printing. Now the photos are digitally placed on the pages using the flatbed scanner, negative scanner or digital camera, eliminating the processing fee.