Thanks for the link. This could also help personal health, since printing with toner-based laser printers (and possibly ink printers) emits carcinogenic VOCs. And less black means less VOCs.
Anyone know what the safest printers are? The research from Australia is old and incomplete. They are focussing on the cause (for which I am grateful), and not testing from a consumer's perspective (not their jobs, but it should be SOMEONE'S) link to a recent discussion of the Aussie research: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/-just-how-safe-is.ars Ecofont looks like a version of Helvetica, the subject of a surprisingly interesting g "Independent Lens" film on PBS recently. Thanks again; I will try to make it my default font for anything I may print (such as incoming emails) Margaret On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Thomas Shelley wrote: > Dear Friends--There is a "new" font called Ecofont. I am giving it a > trail in this e-mail although you may not see it as a new or > different font. The characters are made of many small circles linked > together. Ecofont is designed to be a print font. It allegedly > saves 20 percent of the ink used to print standard fonts and saves a > lot of materials used to make the inks used in standard printers, > thus reducing GHG, etc. I suppose every little bit helps. This > would be especially useful for high volume printing > requirements. For more info > see: http://www.ecofont.eu/ecofont_en.html Have a wonderful day. > Tom > > ****************************************** > Tom Shelley > 118 E. Court St. > Ithaca, NY 14850 > 607 342-0864 > [email protected] > http://www.myspace.com/99319958 (Just updated 3-31-09.) > http://www.facebook.com/129295929#/home.php (Just updated 3-29-09.) > > Compost Educator and Sustainability Scion* > > What Does Zero Waste Mean? > "If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, > refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be > restricted, redesigned, or removed from production." > Berkeley Zero Waste Resolution > See http://www.cityofberkeley.info/council8/newsletter.pdf > > *noun: a shoot or bud of a plant, esp. one for planting or grafting > _______________________________________________ > For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County > area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ > > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > Questions about the list? ask [email protected] > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
