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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Change the font, save the world (and save some money in the process)</div>
  24       <div class="date">26th March 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Would you like to help the environment and save money at the same
  26 time, without much sacrifice?  A small step could be to change the
  27 font you use when printing.</p>
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  29 <p>Three years ago,
  30 <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/04/last-year-printer-comparison-website/">Ars
  31 Technica</a> reported how the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
  32 changed their default front from
  33 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial">Arial</a> to
  34 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Gothic">Century
  35 Gothic</a> to save money.  The Century Gothic font uses 30% less toner
  36 than Arial to print the same text.  In other word, you could cut your
  37 toner costs by 30% (or actually, increase your toner supply life time
  38 by more than 30%), by simply changing the default font used in your
  39 prints.</p>
  40
  41 <p>But it is not quite obvious how much one will save by switching.
  42 The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay said it used $100,000 per year
  43 on ink and toner cartridges, according to
  44 <a href="http://www.twincities.com/ci_14833097">a report from
  45 TwinCities.com</a>, and expected to save between $5,000 and $10,000
  46 per year by asking staff and students to use a different font.  Not
  47 all PDFs and documents are created internally, and those from external
  48 sources will most likely still use a different font.  Also, the
  49 Century Gothic font is slightly wider than Arial, and thus might use
  50 more sheets of paper to print the same text, so the total saving
  51 depend on the documents printed.</p>
  52
  53 <p>But it is definitely something to consider, if you want to reduce
  54 the amount of trash, decrease the amount of toner used in the world,
  55 and save some money in the process.</p>
  56
  57 <p>Update 2013-04-10: If you want to know how much ink/toner could be
  58 saved when switching between fonts, Inkfarm got a
  59 <a href="http://www.inkfarm.com/What-the-Font">service to calculate the
  60 difference between font pairs</a>.  They also
  61 <a href="http://www.inkfarm.com/Recommended-Ink-Saving-Fonts---">recommend
  62 which fonts to use</a> to save ink.  Check it out. :) While updating
  63 this blog post, I also came across a blog post from InkCloners,
  64 <a href="http://inkcloners.com/blog/ink-cartridges/change-fonts-to-save-ink-costs/">listing
  65 the fonts they recommend</a>, with Centory Gothic at the top.</p>
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