The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has come up with a green way to save money via e-mail.
According to an Associated Press report, the college is going to change the default e-mail font from Arial to Century Gothic.
In the report, the UW-Green Bay said, "the change sounds minor, but it will save money on printer ink when students print out e-mails in the new font . . . Diane Blohowiak is the school's director of computing. She says the new font uses about 30 percent less ink than the previous one . . . That could add up to real savings, since the cost of printer ink works out to about $10,000 per gallon."
This is a novel idea. I never would have thought of it. I mean, who would have guessed one font would take less ink than another when printing?
But I guess it makes sense.
Good work, UW-Green Bay.
Todd R. Vogts, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of media at Sterling College in Kansas. Previously, he taught yearbook, newspaper, newsmagazine, and online journalism in various Kansas high schools, and he ran a weekly newspaper in rural Kansas. He continues to freelance as a professional journalist from time to time. Also, Vogts is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the Journalism Education Association (JEA), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), among others. He earned his Master Journalism Educator (MJE) certification from JEA in 2022. When he’s not teaching or writing, he runs his mobile disk jockey service and takes part in other entrepreneurial ventures. He can be reached at twitter.com/toddvogts or via his website at www.toddvogts.com.
