It has been one of those questions concerning the future of the printing industry. My early years of print and laminate your viral documents. No that I really cared about putting much attention. Maybe I was sening what was coming. Consider statements like, a fire outbreak burnt down my certificates, I misplaced it, flood swept in and loss was inevitable or damages on paper that could be done by rodents or our pets.
Digitalization is taking over and inasmuch as one can also call The Paper printing industry a technology, it is becoming obsolete or has it?. Ok, let me start with some assumed setbacks of the latter that are giving hopes to the former. Many people say they find it difficult reading through soft copies. It gets a little complicated to easily jot down some points.
Just assume how this can be done with a pen and a paper or even directly into the novel you are reading through. Many of us are even used to staring at some bible verses in our hardcopies. I got such complaints too from a friend while studying for his examinations, especially a course like mathematics. The pdf seemed not to be giving him what he wanted.
Frankly speaking, I had that experience too and yes, it was calculations related. It gets difficult to affix some mathematical symbols through your mobile phones. Just imagine you moving up and down just to get in a formula in MS word or any current notepads you may be using.
source
Adding this to add, is the health effects of soft copies. Staying on screen for a long time has on many occasions been reported to be very unhealthy to the human eye, especially after a long time. Many of us don't even care to adjust screen brightness to fit the environment. If this stands true, then we should be expected many youths to have eyes issues in the coming decades
Actually, in this article, I was trying to list the advantages of soft copies over hard ones but it seems I have in one way still favored the former technology. Do we still have what to say about soft copies?. Very enormous, maybe we should start from portability. How big was that chemistry text book that I wouldn't want inside my school bag. To some students, it was a book with expansive knowledge to me, it was a burden behind my back, wearying my shoulders.
How many books can you carry in your mobile phones and tablets? The choice is actually yours. In short, I haven't even pointed to the fact that you don't even need the demands of SD cards to keep storing data. Yes, ALL can be saved online.
From here, aside from just being portable, one can talk of easy access. In the earlier paragraphs, I talked about how we footnote things in our hardcopy Bible. The challenge here is that it gets difficult sometimes to easily reference this footnote. You may have to scan the entire Bible in the process.
source
How about the area of cost cutting? In short, this was the main essence of this article. It was a passed down message I got from our church department team some days ago that said, ‘No More Printing’. Just imagine printing the order of service bulletin every Sunday and some other special event days and members dumping it on their chairs when they are heading home. The entire value is lost in two to three hours and so also is the money spent on them. I must admit, I like this digital move by our Archbishop.
We have a media department who can professionally see into that. The projector and all the screens inside the church building should be properly leveraged. A bulletin can even be sent a soft copy to any member demanding and this can be done with just one soft copy. Another easy way to disseminate is through QR code.
To conclude, let me add, the printing industry will face a gradual layoff. The upcoming generations will leverage the technology than we currently have and it is something to consider who will need things on a hard copy. Till then, investors in this sector must remain very vigilant.
This is an article covered by dani-EL; a broad niche writer. I write on faith, life facts and daily living, business and economics, small scale and daily businessing, cryptocurrency and technology. And yes, I do cover articles on financial education and investment updates. And note, if I happen to be a financial adviser to you, the TOP financial advice should be ‘DYOR’ (Do Your Own Research), I can't afford to break your heart.
