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Saving Printing Costs: Fonts

Posted: by Sus Schmitt from eQuipping for eMinistry
Tags: communicating, cubicle, cubicle and home office, equip, ez tips, home office, money-saving tips, mpd, office, saving money, written communication

I wrote earlier about saving printing costs by how you choose your printers and ink cartridges. Now, let’s look specifically at fonts.

Documents and eMails

The University of Wisconsin at Green Bay chose Century Gothic instead of Arial as their default typeface in basic documents, spreadsheets, and eMail, claiming that Century Gothic used the least ink, even 30% less than Arial. (But why eMail? Because you’ll print some of your electronic correspondence, so eMail was also included in the programs with recommended defaults.)

Printing

I also learned from this study that ink is 60% of the cost of a printed page. So, how can you save the cost of ink and paper simply by choosing your fonts wisely? Take a look at the following list of commonly recommended fonts (which also includes Campus Crusade for Christ’s official fonts, Atma and Trade Gothic) to see how the different typefaces compare. All are font size 12.

If your prayer letter or spreadsheet (or whatever document) will fit on one page using Cen...

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Online Reimbursements

Posted: by Sus Schmitt from eQuipping for eMinistry
Tags: conferences, cubicle tips, eministry, etools, ez tips, google, internet, office, organize, saving money, spreadsheet, website

I’ll admit it. I resisted for a while.

We had a system for keeping track of reimbursements. We wrote our ministry and medical mileage in a notebook we kept in the glove compartment and I put all our reimbursement receipts in a folder. My husband would then use the folder every few months or so to submit a reimbursement. We’d occasionally miss something that was older than the ninety-day limit.

Then, Mike started using the online reimbursement function on the Staff Web after it came out. A year or so later, he asked if I would submit our reimbursements online. Well, I didn’t want to change what we were doing and thought it would be “one more thing to do.”

Now, it’s my preferred way to submit reimbursements. I’m actually the one who probably knows what needs reimbursing. It was also logical for me to enter our expenses and mileage online soon after they occurred instead of trying to remember everything later. We rarely go past the ninety-day limit any more. Also, when ...

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