Pulp Fact, Not Fiction --Dickeson

Let's talk a little about RFID (Radio Frequency Identifier) and how it's making data collection for paper a piece of cake. When you receive the paper lot, regardless of who supplies it, attach a little RFID to it. The chip in the RFID is a wireless transmitter to your basic file server telling you the date and hour when it's received, among many other things. (WalMart is leading the way on this.) We'll follow this technology to make paper quantity, basis weight, location and timing easy, current and accurate. (Cost is around 30 cents a chip today, but predicted to go to 4 cents or less soon. They're even talking about RFID chips on bank notes!)