Best ink saving fonts
Font has different shape, space between letters, bold or not, and
so it can makes a difference. Actually one font is quite popular but
isn't free anymore, it was ecofont
looking on internet, I found some articles ( including wikipedia article
) , and Century Gothic seems to be a modern looking and could save 30%
of ink.
but to be able to implement a on-the-fly font replacement of the pdf
file with greencloud printer, I had to look at more tools and review
someone reported this link but it is dead now !
http://www.inkfarm.com/Recommended-Ink-Saving-Fonts---
the quick conclusion is this
I wonder if it would make sense to implement in greencloud a
little tool to compare the % of ink covering the page, so it could be
used to review different font based on the pixel values all over the
page ?
since my last post I found more sources and valuable tool to decide what
font to use for your document, we are considering to be able to add an
option to our green printing software to switch the font to a saving-one on the fly. for that, we are using review about the ink coverage factor
http://blog.colortonerexpert.com/cost-effective-fonts/
according this one the best choice would be Garamond
if you want to calculate and compare the ink usage of your current font I recommand this excellent online tool :
http://www.inkfarm.com/What-the-Font
another source from an article of Cnet
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20001913-93.html
in case you look for more data you can also refer to this source
http://blog.printer.com/2009/04/prin...-a-difference/
and another software to calculate ink coverage , I didn't try it
http://avpsoft.com/products/apfill/
inkfarm really does a great work in providing accurate calculations of
any fonts ink usage consumption. You can use it to know how much you
ought to spend when changing font,it also calculates how much you can
save..