Sometimes we hear politicians talking about cuts in expenditure and "fighting government waste. ” This can be very simple. Let's explain what we mean.
Ο Suvir Mirchandani, is a 14-year-old from Pittsburgh. The young man was just trying to save his school from some expenses (and complete an assigned project). As part of his work, he analyzed many of his teachers' notes with a tool called APFill® Ink Coverage Software, trying to determine which lettersseries they used the most ink.
It came to the conclusion that by printing documents exclusively with the font Garamond, which has a sharper but finer footprint than the Times New Roman or the Century Gothic, his school could reduce ink consumption by 24%. The rate is not small, since if we convert it to dollars, the school could save 21.000 dollars per year, as the CNN.
Impressed by the student's findings, his teacher contacted him journal for Emerging Investigators, a website founded by Harvard students to publish their academic work. From the Journal for Emerging Investigators, they were intrigued by the 14-year-old's research and considered expanding the scope to include the entire federal government, which needs $1.800.000.000 a year just for printing.
The results of the research (“A Simple Printing Solution to Aid Deficit Reduction”) that resulted show impressive results and explain why Washington should officially adopt the Garamond typeface as a mandatory government font.
“Even though printing costs have decreased in recent years,” Mirchandani says in his summary presentation, “they are still high and a change of the font can lead to significant savings.”
How much money are we talking about? "The analysis predicts that the government's annual savings with a change in Garamond alone are likely to save an average of about $ 234 million (at worst $ 62 million and at best $ 394 million)."
