Ecofont: holey font saves ink
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This font is supposed to save 20% in ink for "every-day" printing requirements. My tiny cartridges cost $15 for black and $25 for color - I'm going to try it.
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I'm a really stupid consumer, I admit it. To buy this stuff and then pay for the printer as well. I just bought 2 black ink cartridge, cost $47.00. The actual dimensions of the plastic enclosure of each cartridge is .5" x 1.25" x 1.5". Now within that enclosure is a sponge that is soaked with the black ink. Imagine that!.... How very clever.....to further reduce the amount of ink in a cartridge by adding a sponge. Its sheer genius, that's why they pay big bucks to people that can come up with this kind of marketing and product design.
Folks we really deserve to be spanked and taken to the cleaners. If we don't vote with our wallets.
Now check out the price you're paying for a gallon of computer ink.
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Thanks for the heads up, I've just installed it...
Pros: Text is very readable, at least coming from my laser printer, if you don't look too close, at which point the holes begin to distract you. I guess this was designed with inkjet printers in mind... On those impressions, ink bleeding would cover the holes.
Cons: When using it, zooming in your Word Processor becomes a lot slower.
A BIG Plus: You can tell your clients that you used an "eco-font" in the dimensioning.
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Interesting Jim. Now I can stop printing in 4 point type.
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Also the question is: what (non English) characters does it have? I couldn't see asimple chart or something.
(BTW I don't even have a printer so I don't know why I am worrying) -
This is extract from download page...does this help?
"Ecofont version 2.02 is now available. Changes (i.c.t. version 2.01) are (Hungarian) umlauts"
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Ah, thanks! I couldn" find it anywhere...
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Super cool ! I take the link!
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Read about this in the Guardian in December.
Some varied comments:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2008/dec/22/waste-ethicalliving
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@tomot said:
The actual dimensions of the plastic enclosure of each cartridge is .5" x 1.25" x 1.5". Now within that enclosure is a sponge that is soaked with the black ink. Imagine that!.... How very clever.....to further reduce the amount of ink in a cartridge by adding a sponge. Its sheer genius, that's why they pay big bucks to people that can come up with this kind of marketing and product design.
If it makes you feel any better, the sponge isn't in there just to cheat you out of ink - It provides the necessary back-pressure to prevent the ink from drooling out of the cartridge. All inkjet cartridges need to have some back-pressure so that you don't get ink dripping out of the printhead when the printer is idle. I'm not defending the prices they charge though ...
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I am pretty sure this font will not save any ink but it is pretty clever.
Beard Font
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/the_best_font_ever_9432.asp -
@unknownuser said:
If it makes you feel any better, the sponge isn't in there just to cheat you out of ink - It provides the necessary back-pressure to prevent the ink from drooling out of the cartridge. All inkjet cartridges need to have some back-pressure so that you don't get ink dripping out of the printhead when the printer is idle. ...
No! It does not make me feel any better,
Whenever I take out my fountain pen, for signing in a public setting, people are always amazed. Most have never seen a real Fountain pen. Fountain Pens don't have a drooling problem.
Perhaps the fountain pen solution should have been adapted for the printer. -
@ecuadorian said:
Cons: When using it, zooming in your Word Processor becomes a lot slower.
No wonder, just explode the font in some vector graphic software and see how many line segments it generates! Moreover I doubt this font actually saves ink. Want to save ink? Use RomanS all over the place!
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@tomot said:
... Perhaps the fountain pen solution should have been adapted for the printer.
An elegant idea. The Fisher company spent millions of dollars to develop a pen that would write in zero gravity for NASA. It got a closeup in Kubrick's "2001". The Russians used pencils.
August
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@august said:
@tomot said:
... Perhaps the fountain pen solution should have been adapted for the printer.
An elegant idea. The Fisher company spent millions of dollars to develop a pen that would write in zero gravity for NASA. It got a closeup in Kubrick's "2001". The Russians used pencils.
Not quite. Fisher spent about $1m of their own money to develop the pen and patent it. NASA bought about 400, apparently at around $6 each. The Soviet program bought a hundred or so to replace the grease pencils they had (like NASA) previously used. No one would use normal graphite pencils; at least not if they wanted to survive the mission. Care to imagine the electrical problems that might arise from graphite dust floating around a micro-gravity capsule? Dead astronauts are such an embarrassment.
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