Hey do you want to save some money on printing? Try Century Gothic.
Hit by the high prices of ink jet and toner cartridges, we're all looking for ways to shave some bucks off the cost of printing. New data from www.printer.com found that because different fonts use different amounts of ink to print, using the right font could save you as much as 31% off your ink jet and toner cartridge expenses.
Printer, which is a Dutch company that compares printers and their costs, recently put its theory to the test. The company set up two printers--a Canon ink jet and a Brother laser printer--to see how much money could be saved by using different fonts. Both printers were left at their default settings of 600 x 600 dots per inch.
Can the right font cut your printing costs?
Using the default Arial font as a baseline, Printer.com hanged to different fonts as it put the printers through their paces. The winner: Century Gothic, which delivered a 31% savings in printing costs over Arial.
On money basis, the company projected that the average person printing around 25 pages a week would save $20 a year by using Century Gothic for all documents. A business or heavy-duty user printing 250 pages per week would save around $80 for the year. And large companies with multiple printers could potentially save hundreds of dollars a year.
As a thin and light font, Century Gothic managed to beat out Econfont, which was specifically created to cut costs by spewing out less ink. But if Century Gothic doesn't look like the right style for your documents, third place and always popular Times Roman could also help ease your printing budget, according to Printer.com's results.
To conduct its tests, Printer.com switched among the 10 most frequently used fonts and chose a font size of 10 or 11. To better determine the coverage of each font, the company printed documents saved as PDF files and used a software program called Apfill to calculate that coverage.
As always, enjoy life, save money and stay safe.
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