Mission: Impossible
Printing in the Digital Age

The traditionally paper-based Government Printing Office is working to come up with ways to remain viable in today’s Digital Age. GPO recently issued a request for proposals for the Future Digital System, which agency officials hope will take GPO into the 21st century.

We at Federal Computer Week also try to keep up with the times. We know our readers lead busy lives and like to get their information in many formats, not only print or online articles. Therefore, in addition to providing you with an intriguing behind-the-scenes look at GPO in print, we also give you the chance to actually look inside the agency through our slideshow. Or you can listen to Public Printer Bruce James and other agency officials discuss their plans for modernizing GPO by clicking on the audio links below. You can also download them to your computer or mp3 player. For more insight, check out FCW Executive Editor Christopher J. Dorobek’s blog post or read the Q&A.

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• What do we need a GPO for? (4:03)



• James talks funding, the name game (3:52)



• Tech's effects over time (5:06)



• Technology, documents merge (1:00)

Click here to read Aliya Sternstein's article
GPO faces a mission that it has no choice but to accept -- remaining viable in an era in which traditional printing is disappearing

Click here to read a Q&A with Public Printer Bruce James and other GPO officials