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Developing the framework to marry data from the two databases took several programmers 18 months to complete. With more than 90 newspapers to support, the demands of ongoing maintenance are also time-consuming.

Printing is done in-house on two Xerox DocuColor 6060 digital color production systems. The software used to drive production was developed internally. Gannett sends out more than 1 million new subscriber touches a year, with digital print production runs done daily.