> however it's harder to move it to digital again. Should be fairly easy if you print bar codes, qr codes, etc. We used to have programs distributed on paper

> however it's harder to move it to digital again. Should be fairly easy if you print bar codes, qr codes, etc. We used to have programs distributed on paper with a simple hand held bar code reader. With modern printers and error correction this should be extremely robust. You could just take a phone cam picture.