Paper Beats Digital for Comprehension and Students' Health

By Bob Neubauer

A growing body of research suggests that a switch to electronic learning materials from paper-based materials may be detrimental to students’ ability to learn and remember information, as well as to their overall health and well-being.

A recent article from TwoSides North America – an organization dedicated to telling the sustainability story of print, paper, and paper-based packaging – cites a study of more than 171,000 readers that compared reading from digital text with reading from printed text. The analysis found that comprehension was better when people read printed as opposed to digital texts.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.