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 an 14-year from Pittsburgh. The young man tried to just save his school from some expense (and to complete a project that was assigned to him). In his work he analyzed many of his teachers' notes with a tool called APFill® Ink Coverage Software, trying to determine which fonts were using 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 put him in touch with the Journal for Emerging Investigators, a website founded by Harvard students to publish their academic work. From the Journal for Emerging Investigators, they looked at her with interest research του 14-χρονου και σκέφτηκαν να επεκτείνουν το πεδίο applicationand 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 fallen in recent years," Mirchandani said in a brief statement, "they are still high and a change of font can save a lot of money."
For how much money we speak; "THE analysis predicts that the government's annual savings with the change to Garamond alone is likely to save an average of about $234 million ($62 million at worst and $394 million at best).”
