1. Queen’s Printers Association of Canada Annual Conference
Queen’s Printers Association of Canada
Annual Conference
Victoria, British Columbia
June 5, 2012
Marilyn Lustig-McEwen
Saskatchewan Queen’s Printer

2. QUEEN'S PRINTER PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Online Focus
Freelaw ® (legislative publications)
Publications Centre (Saskatchewan docs)
Forms
Documents and File Management
eCommerce
Costing model
On-demand printing
QUEEN'S PRINTER PRODUCTS & SERVICES

3. Freelaw® Statutes Regulations Rules of Court The Saskatchewan Gazette
Orders in Council
Tables to Statutes and Regulations
Law Enforcement Handbook
Inquiry Reports

4. Historical Legislation
1905 to present – bound volumes
Scan, typeset – InDesign, proofread, pdf , post unedited to Freelaw®; edit; post final copy
Gazette – challenges
Point-in-time consolidations
Internal Links
Table of contents for each Act
Separate chapters linked in consolidation – original enactment and subsequent amendments
Acts in force; planned for historical legislation

5. Ministry of Government Services manages: Executive Council manages:
Publications Centre
QP manages:
Participation
Catalogue
On-line administration website
Collection and disbursement of funds to participating agencies
Payment Gateway/shopping cart
Server
Ministry of Government Services manages:
Government Telephone Directory Service (GTDS)
Executive Council manages:
Thesaurus
Search

6. Forms Form Creation – moving away from PDF to web-based
stakeholders able to save completed eforms (security settings allow varied levels of permission)
Radio buttons, boxes
Open form fields for online completion (fillable)
fields can be restricted:
stakeholders able to enter numbers only
certain number of characters (for date, telephone number, etc.)
pull downs, check boxes, information boxes
Online submittable forms – some done; work in progress

7. Documents and File Management
Scanning, Typesetting/Design
PDF – web, FTP, , CD’s
Printing and Finishing
mainly legislation, but also special orders, and materials for sponsorship
in-house perfect and cerlox binding
in-line trimming and saddle stitching
Archiving
LEAN Project Advisors

8. eCommerce Already built in Cold Fusion and PCI compliant
Revolving Fund bears responsibility of accounting
20% Sales Commission (free docs no charge) includes:
hosting charges and maintenance and development costs for system upgrades
credit card transaction fees
service account fees for payment processor and bank account
Saves on administrative work – we collect 100% and return partner’s portion (80% of subtotal and shipping combined plus 100% of taxes)

9. Costing Model QPRF mandated to be cost recovery
$35/hr for typesetting, form creation, opening fields
20% fees for eCommerce reasonable
QP pays transaction costs and service account fees between the payment processor and bank account
system upgrades continually – site refresher, new server, new features, maintenance
High volume price breaks
printing in large quantities
commission fees lowered

10. What’s new
Online submittable forms - web-based forms for Ministry of Health, for municipal assessment forms, etc.
RSS feeds for updates to legislation/other publications
Historical OC’s, historical Gazettes and re-incorporating News Releases into Pubs Centre
New Konica Minolta Biz Hub Pro 1200’s (2) with online perfect bind, saddle stitch and trimming for on-demand printing
Curriculum Distribution Centre
QR Codes
Mobile Apps – and

11. Staff Queen’s Printer Publications Centre and Financial Policy Analyst
Financial Manager
Senior Legislative Editor; Legislative Editor
Digitization and Marketing Coordinator
Web Communications Designer; 2 Publications Communications Designers
Digital Technician, Shipper/Receiver and Client Services Representative

12. Comments/Suggestions:
Marilyn Lustig-McEwen
Queen’s Printer for Saskatchewan
Ministry of Justice
B Albert Street
Regina SK S4S0B1
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