The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is actually making headlines this week by switching the font it uses in its emails. The school says that printing out documents in Century Gothic rather than its old font, Arial, uses 30% less ink.
The move is part of the school's five-year plan to go green -- and save money. Printer ink costs about $10,000 per gallon. But there's just one problem: Who prints emails from colleges? It's possible that if everyone in America were to start using Century Gothic instead of Arial for all correspondence that is printed, meaningful savings could be achieved. And perhaps this is a start to that. News websites could start by making all print versions of stories appear in a green-friendly font, and readers would appreciate the savings in ink...
I'd recommend printing out brand new copies of all of your documents -- with new, "green" fonts -- to take advantage of this exciting discovery.
Seems to me that it's just going to lead to higher paper costs--what used to print on 1 page is now going to spill onto 2.
ReplyDeleteDid you notice how Century Gothic is a wider font than Arial?
Printer ink costs $10,000 per gallon? That more than $78 per ounce! How do I get into the business of selling ink to these goobs?
ReplyDeleteThat does it, I'm switching to 48pt Cooper Black for all my emails...
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