EcoFont is a step in the right direction. Not only ink is expensive, the printers do a great job spending it!

I recently found a software utility, PretonSaver Home, that "turns" every font to eco-font. It reduces ink consumption by up to 70% and provides excellent print quality.

I did not have to change the fonts I use or change the way I print. PretonSaver works in the background and very smartly optimizes the ink/toner used by my printers.

Try it for free. Download PretonSaver from halftheink.com (http://www.halftheink.com)

Your sarcasm detector is obviously fully functional. How sad must one be to want to register with a nickname purely to spite a poster – there’s the "worst meme ever" right there! Such a reaction might be in keeping from one who believes the ecofont will go some way to saving the planet.....

We need a software tool that would allow us to turn off 20% of the ink droplets.

Printer ink cartridges, that's something the EU need to look into. God knows our own governments won't investigate the price fixing, those corrupt swines.

Worst meme ever.

In related news, teabags can make up to 50 cups of tea if carefully dried between use and toilet roll if folded correctly can be reused several times.

Mny Englsh wrds hv chrctrs whch r nt rqrd. Ths rdndncy cn b rmved, so prvdng anthr mthd fr svng ink.

... that I printed it out a short memo for each staff member explaining the benefits of using this font to save ink. It was only then that I realised that printing at normal text size didn't result with much saving (the holes disappear at 10-11 size), so I blew up the font size to 72 to get the maximum ink saving. Each memo ended up being twenty pages long – but at least I had saved a lot of ink!

Yeah, screw the nature but keep it neat.

I second that.

Lame.

Since people just love to print huge, black and bold letters. But they would need to put holes in Arial and Times New Roman which everyone uses despite having dozens of fonts to choose.

Next they only have to put holes in every Office clipart and Excel's charts, since for every Power Point presentation in class, there will be a printed version for every student.

save paper & ink by not printing ;-)

Or I could print using a font with a thinner stroke (say 20% thinner) or one point size less.

Or I could just print using my existing fonts in grey rather than black.