Schools trust SumnerOne.

Three things happening on your campus right now

Students learn better on paper. The research is settled. 

A meta-analysis of over 171,000 participants across dozens of studies and multiple countries found a consistent result: students comprehend more, retain more, and engage more deeply when they read on paper than on screens. Faculty have known this for years. The data now backs them up. 

At the same time, generative AI has changed what digital coursework means. Campuses across the country are returning to paper-based exams, printed course packets, and physical workbooks. Blue book sales are climbing at campus bookstores nationwide. Your print center is producing the materials that make authentic learning and authentic assessment possible.

171,000
participants confirming the comprehension advantage of print over screens

Your most important messages are arriving in the noisiest channel on earth. 

The average person receives over 100 emails a day. A 2025 consumer study found that 70 percent of people had unsubscribed from at least three brands in the prior three months. Not because they lost interest. Because they were exhausted. 

That is the environment your admissions packet lands in. Your donor appeal. Your parent newsletter. Your athletic recruiting materials. A printed piece on a kitchen counter does not compete with anything. It stays. It gets picked up, set down, picked up again. Neuroscience research confirms what direct mail professionals have known for decades: physical materials produce stronger recall, deeper emotional response, and higher motivation than their digital equivalents. 

70%
higher brand recall for physical materials versus digital

The print environment is the governance gap nobody audited. 

Most campuses have invested significantly in network security and data governance. But the print environment is often the gap that slipped through. The biggest exposure is not the managed copier fleet. It is the personal printers nobody inventoried: the inkjet in a counselor’s office printing student records on an unmanaged device with no authentication, no audit trail, and no governance. 

Meanwhile, most institutions cannot answer a basic question: what does print actually cost, by department, by building, by use case? The budget line exists. The visibility does not. Every reprint from a wrong version, every rush job from a late intake, every color job that should have been mono — that is money and time subtracted from student support. And nobody can see it because the infrastructure to track it was never built.

~$1M
in documented savings from one SumnerOne education partnership — through systematic visibility, accountability, and waste prevention

These aren’t hypotheticals. Here’s what this looks like in practice.