Comments on: Small IT innovations — even savvy font management! — can cut costs http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/small-it-innovations-even-savvy-font-management-can-cut-costs/ A SearchCIO.com blog Sat, 11 May 2013 17:51:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Veseloiu http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/small-it-innovations-even-savvy-font-management-can-cut-costs/#comment-539 Veseloiu Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:57:07 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/total-cio/?p=1217#comment-539 After a quick look, I actually feel that the new font ismore difficult/less efficient to read and it is wider so it takes more paper to print on and I believe that, given the increased effort in reading it and the increased paper consumption, in a short while this particular switch to century gothic will be deemed an inefficient switch.

The idea, however is great and I believe that there may be other fonts that could do the trick better or even using a “economy mode ” that saves ink or a draft mode for each font that could do the same by printing a “skinnier” version of the font.
More importantly, requests could be made to the printer manufacturers to include new fonts and special draft versions (like the dot matrix printers had) designed with this economy in mind

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