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Save Toner – and Money – With This Free Font

January 6, 2009 by Cathy Stucker 5 Comments

eco_fontDo you spend a lot of money on ink or toner for your printer? If you print out guidelines and forms for shops, completed shops, and other records, you will eat through a toner cartridge in no time at all. There are ways to cut back on the amount of toner you use, such as saving completed reports as PDFs instead of printing them, but here is a new way to cut your toner use by up to 20%, even if you print just as many pages as you always have.

Dutch company SPRANQ has introduced a new font that has tiny holes in each letter. (They compare it to “Dutch holey cheese.”) As you can see in the graphic to the right, at normal sizes (10 – 12 point) the font looks solid. You can see the holes start to appear at 14 point, and they are quite obvious in the 24 point example.

This is not a font you would want to use for business letters or other external documents, but it works well for printing out mystery shop guidelines and forms, data from web sites, and other documents for your personal use. I printed a sample page and found it very easy to read.

The font will work on systems running Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X and Linux. You can download this free font at http://www.ecofont.com/en/products/green/font/download-the-ink-saving-font.html If you are not sure how to install a font on your computer, you will also find links to detailed instructions on the download page.

Why not try a painless way to save money on one of your biggest supply expenses?

Thanks to Anne Mitchell at The Internet Patrol for making me aware of this font.

Filed Under: Profitable Mystery Shopping, Technology and Secret Shopping Tagged With: font, ink, printing, toner

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Comments

  1. crawdaddydoo92 says

    January 17, 2009 at 3:07 am

    great article. I may try it. One question, how will this help us print stuff like guidelines when we didn’t write it? I’ve thiught of cut and paste but that doen’t always work

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  2. Cathy Stucker says

    January 17, 2009 at 9:31 am

    If you are printing a PDF file you usually do not have control of the font. That is because the fonts are embedded when the file is created. However, if you are printing a Word document, just change the font as you would in any Word document you create or edit.

    The specifics of changing the font when you print web pages will depend on your system and the browser you use. Generally, you can change the default font in your web browser. That will not affect how you view most web pages, but will change the print font.

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  3. Christy says

    March 29, 2010 at 8:11 am

    I didn’t see on the website where it is free?

    Reply
    • Cathy Stucker says

      March 29, 2010 at 8:20 am

      They moved the download link. The post has been corrected.

      Reply
  4. Tara says

    May 28, 2011 at 1:12 pm

    This font is really cool. Thanks for sharing it 🙂

    Reply

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