This topic just irks me, it's sounds clever at first, but anyone who has just a little education in print publishing (anyone who knows what CMYK stands for) sho

This topic just irks me, it's sounds clever at first, but anyone who has just a little education in print publishing (anyone who knows what CMYK stands for) should be aware that there are way better ways make an impact on the amount of ink used (not to say, saving money). - If they would use something like InDesign they could print everything in 50% Black and could instantly save 50% no matter what. - Even worse is Rich Black[1] printing which wastes 3 times the amount of ink/toner namely CMY instead of K (black). - That the costs of getting something printed by an actual print service company by printing press are surprisingly low given digital print ready delivery and break even pretty fast, especially for colored prints, where the quality is also vastly superior. - any school or organization of similar or bigger size should use professional office grade black only laser printers for all default print jobs, which should keep cost way below 5 cents/page. At all costs stay away from consumer grade inkjet printers. And get only one! office grade Inkjet printer with big and per color replaceable cartridges which pretty fast compensates for it's initial cost and is also superior to color laser printing.‡ Here is the actual study: http://emerginginvestigators.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Mirchandani-2013.pdf http://emerginginvestigators.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/... This study completely omits to differentiate between text and graphic type printing yet makes this quite thoughtful remark: In addition, fonts may be chosen with a specific purpose in mind (e.g. aesthetics), but posters and other graphical design in which font type could have meaningful impact would usually be printed on a color printer. Color toner ink costs for printing were not tested in this study. Another related way of saving ink is the following: when an assignment is photocopied from a book, a black border in the periphery is sometimes printed. This black border gets copied, leading to a large wastage of ink. “Whiting out” the black periphery would further reduce the ink usage in the school district. This impact would be in addition to what was investigated in this study Let the kids have Comic Sans if they want to, but let them know what it cost what it needs to print their essays on inkjet printers on a rainbow colored background. Normal text covers only between 2.8%[2] to 5% of a page. In other ways a page with fully colored background can easily use more than 60 times (100/5 * 3 Colors) the amount of ink than a simple text page. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_black http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_black [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.-Grauert-Brief http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.-Grauert-Brief [German DIN Standard Test Letter] ‡ http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/24/hps-new-enterprise-ink-based-printers-can-operate-at-twice-the-speed-and-half-the-cost-of-laser-printers/ http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/24/hps-new-enterprise-ink-bas... (ballpark figure for original HP colored inks here is $100/100ml compared to up to above $500/100ml for consumer grade ink portions)