Which Font Is Cheapest To Type?
In today’s society, with increasing costs for printers, printer ink and paper, many offices and small businesses are willing to try anything to cut down on their printing costs. Some usual strategies include double-sided printing and keycodes to use the printer. Others try more drastic approaches, like trying to impose a paper free office, or giving every employee a flash drive to carry files. Here’s a much simpler solution: change your font and save up to 31% on ink costs. Really now??
The most popular font type these days is Arial. A study conducted by blog.printer.com, however, deduces that it’s certainly not the most economical. To set up a strict control situation, they compared 10 different fonts over the exact same test situations. A Canon Pixma MP210 was used to represent the printer an average home user would own and the Brother HL-2140 was used to represent the printer an average business user would own.
All 10 fonts were used to print identical texts. The documents were turned into .pdf documents and scanned by the application Apfill, which calculated the total ink coverage of each page.
To establish a winner, each font’s relative ink coverage was evaluated and compared. With the assumption of 25 pages/week a home user could save $20/year in ink costs just by switching to Century Gothic. Normal business use (estimated to be around 250 pages/week) would result in $80 yearly savings with the switch to Century Gothic.
Keep in mind, many businesses have more than one printer, or print far more than 250 pages/week. For these businesses, the savings could be astronomical.
So what is the winner of this font-off? What text utilized the least ink while maintaining quality readability?
Taking the #1 prize is Century Gothic. Verdana and Times New Roman, other popular and common fonts, placed at #5 and #3, respectively. Out of the 10 fonts, Arial was actually ranked #6, placing it as fairly average.
Perhaps this is a method that would work in your company or small business to lower costs. Just change the font.
Take a look at the rest of the blog.printer.com article on their website, where you can see numbers and rankings for all ten of the tested fonts.
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