From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:57:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: First draft. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/44bbffd895cb58456854b01bc9d3ea03c01a5d2e?ds=sidebyside First draft. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2013-03-26-green-font.txt b/blog/data/2013-03-26-green-font.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6041ed3f52 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/data/2013-03-26-green-font.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Title: Change font, save the world (and some money) +Tags: english +Date: 2013-03-26 15:00 + +

Would you like to help the environment and save money at the same +time, without much sacrifice? A small step could be to change the +font you use when printing.

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Three years ago, +Arts +Techinca reported how the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay +changed their default front from +Arial to +Century +Gothic to save money. The Century Gothic font uses 30% less toner +than Arial to print the same text. In other word, you could cut your +toner costs by 30% (or actually, increase your toner supply life time +by 30%, by simply changing the default font used in your prints.

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But it is not quite obvious how much one will safe by switching. +The University of Wisconsis-Green Bay said it used $100,000 per year +on unk and toner cartridges, according to +a report from +TwinCities.com, and expected to save between $5,000 and $10,000 +per year by asking staff and students to use a different font. Not +all PDFs are created interally, and those from external sources will +still use their "native" font. Also, the Century Gothic font is +slightly wider than Arial, and thus might use more sheets of paper to +print the same text, so the savings depend on the usage.

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But it is definitely something to consider, if you want to reduce +the amount of trash, decrease the amount of toner used in the world +and save some money in the process.