The newsprint that will roll over the presses of the Orlando Sentinel sometime next month may not look any different to the paper's readers. But it will have endured a fairly torturous journey - from a port in China, across the Pacific, through the Panama Canal, and then by rail from the port of Miami.

The Sentinel could have saved a lot of hassle by buying the newsprint from its usual suppliers in Canada. But its owner, the Tribune Company, is betting that it can save money by importing the Chinese product. It will begin to test that theory in Orlando, and then in December or January at its largest paper, The LosAngeles Times.