Misc Printing Notes

 Saving Toner and Increasing Printer Reliability

There are several ways of simultaneously saving toner (ink) and increasing printer reliability:

• Print to PDF (i.e. don't print, create a PDF)
• Print in Draft mode
• Enable any toner-saving features on the printer itself:
  HP: Economode
  Canon: Toner Saving Mode
  Kyocera: Ecoprint Mode or Toner Save Mode
  Xerox: Toner Saving Mode
• Print using a:
  lower DPI
  70%-80% grey font color
  smaller font
  decreased font weight (condensed font) or use a thinner font (e.g. instead of Arial use Century Gothic)
• Ecofont -- font with tiny holes in the letters like Ecofont, though this raises various issues:
  http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1065935
  http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/01/31/cut-costs-by-saving-ink-with-ecofont/ especially http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/01/31/cut-costs-by-saving-ink-with-ecofont/#comment-870994
• More info on Ecofont:
  http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/01/ecofont/
  http://donnayoung.org/blog/dywork/ecofont
  http://financedad.com/ecofont-a-cost-and-benefit-analysis-of-eco-friendly-font-printing/