Even as e-filing accelerates, integrated reports will stay on paper
CSRD tightens electronic formats and tagging. Yet with “print + web” still at 44.3%, where do printers make money—and where do they lose it?
You’ve probably seen “print-ready PDF” on an integrated report download page. As e-filing rules tighten, the role of paper doesn’t automatically disappear. Paper persists not because of nostalgia, but because key “definition of done” conditions—AGMs, distribution, revisions, and liability boundaries—still lean toward print.
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
When you say paper is still around, you often get the reply: “So it’s still print-first?” The stats say “print-only” is indeed a minority. But that doesn’t mean print-related work has vanished.
In Toyo Keizai’s CSR survey (2024), “paper only” was 0.7% as a reporting medium. Meanwhile, “paper + web” was 44.3%, and “web only” was 40.4%. Print-only has become the exception; running paper and digital in parallel has become the norm.…
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