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 === Name change and shift to digital publishing ===
 With demand for print publications falling and a move underway to digital document production and preservation, the name of the GPO was officially changed to "Government Publishing Office" in a provision of an omnibus government funding bill passed by Congress in December 2014.<ref>Andrew Siddons, [https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/12/12/ "Government Printer Renamed for Digital Age"], ''The New York Times'', December 12, 2014.</ref> Following signature of this legislation by President [[Barack Obama]], the name change took place on December 17, 2014.<ref name="New Name"/>
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-File:Government Printing Office, restaurant - Washington, D.C..jpg|Government Printing Office, the restaurant in 1922
-File:Machine shop in the Government Printing Office.jpg|Machine shop in the Government Printing Office
-File:Printing unemployment census questionnaires. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. Scene at the Government Printing Office where 3,000,000 unemployment census questionnaires are being printed daily. LCCN2016872423.jpg|Scene at the Government Printing Office where 3,000,000 unemployment census questionnaires are being printed daily in 1937
-File:Ready for postman. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. After they are printed and folded for mailing at the Government Printing Office, the unemployment census questionaires are dumped into a mail LCCN2016878021.jpg|The mailroom in 1937
-File:Unemployment census blanks prepared for mailing. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. As rapidly as the presses in the Government Printing Office print the unemployment census blanks, workers trim and LCCN2016872425.jpg|As rapidly as the presses in the Government Printing Office print the unemployment census blanks, workers trim and mail.
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 ==Public Printers of the United States==