OT: Printing costs, and a surprising find

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/28/2014 10:02 AM, Fairlight wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
>
> I thought it was interesting.  There are people around here who go through
> a bunch of paper and ink, so I thought I'd share.

Interesting article.  I wonder how the printer industry will respond to 
this.  Perhaps change their drivers to convert Garamond into some 
similar-but-more-ink-intensive font?  After all, in today's "lose money on 
the printer and make it up in ink profits" business model, we can't let the 
consumers save on ink.  (It was bad enough that the courts ruled that using 
third-party ink can't void the warranty.)

Speaking of which, have you heard about Keurig's plan to have their next 
generation coffee makers not work with "unlicensed" pods?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140227/06521826371/keurig-will-use-drm-new-coffee-maker-to-lock-out-refill-market.shtml

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/how-do-you-drm-a-thing-like-a-coffee-pod/

-- 
Kenneth Brody