Monday 15 June 2015

Free Fast and Pretty: which shopping cart?

Related:
Choosing a UK business bank account
https://veg-buildlog.blogspot.com/2015/07/setting-up-shop-with-uk-business-bank.html
Free, Fast and Pretty: shopping cart software for ecommerce < this page
https://veg-buildlog.blogspot.com/2015/06/shopping-cart-software-for-ecommerce.html
Simple Bookkeeping and Account Agregators
https://veg-buildlog.blogspot.com/2015/12/simple-book-keeping-and-account.html
Free Online Bookkeeping Software for Simple Accounts
https://veg-buildlog.blogspot.com/2016/08/free-online-book-keeping-software-for.html

Free Fast and Pretty - which shopping cart?

This is a note of all the shopping carts that are free & pretty, to install automatically on a site.
A site the uses a database is going to take time to install and backup; it's easier if there is an installer like these. The shopping carts run on Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal, or more simply are called shopping carts and download as a single thing.
- fantastico scroll-down to E-Commerce for a list of shopping carts
- softulicious  Softulicious shopping carts
- installatraon Installatron ecommerce and business apps
With luck, a super-fast super-cheap hosting company will have a version of one of these three script installers free for customers to use on its control panel, ready do install shopping-cart software with a single click.




My fast site is on a server chosen from webperf.net and test ones are on hostinger.co.uk or x10hosting.co.uk who allow 2 database sites per account. You can see what I want to change away-from at my shoe shop here.
Promising shopping cart software is red. I have 2 F-words & 4 P-words for whittling-down choice.
Free, Fast & Pretty; Postage, Payment, & Product management are essential too.
Product management sub-divides into another five points to whittle-down the shortlist.

http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/images/articles/ecommerce-shopping-carts.jpg puts shopping cats into categories, with this category at the top - known for being free, but without hosting or customer support and known for being harder to set-up than a hosted shopping cart.

There's a separate bit about hosting at the bottom titled "Hosting: Webperf.net"

Free

The cost is hidden in the price of modules. Open-source ought to be cheaper I guess, as well as being a prettier idea to deal with than something corporate. I don't want to pay so-much-a-month for a hosted service like Shopify or Bigcommerce. I haven't read that they're better than self-installed software; the same money could pay for developers to help you install. And if I can't pay bills, then Shopify and Bigcommerce put up a sign saying "closed". Self-hosted software can go on a slow free server like Byethost and leave me with just the cost of the domain to pay-for until business picks-up or the firm is sold or I run the firm down gracefully or my health recovers or I get back out of prison or whatever the next stage might be. (Joke: I am not in prison)

Fast

Not that I know of any measurements, but Magento gets bad reviews for this compared to Prestashop (I haven't googled the others for speed tests recently that I can remember)
Trying to re-check this fact with a quick google in July 2017, the first result puts Magento ahead in the US and Prestashop in Europe.
https://blog.aheadworks.com/fastest-ecommerce-platform/
So the test is not to put two similara set-ups on one server, one using Magento and one Prestashop. It is to test a number of other peoples' shops on whatever server they happen to use, and of course some firms throw money at the problem and have super-fast servers. The second test puts Prestashop behind as well with the same measuring system
https://www.quanta-computing.com/best-e-commerce-platform-performance/
This one is confident that on the same host, Prestashop does better and that it can work better on cheaper hosts; it's less bloated. No facts are quoted to back this up.
https://www.mavenecommerce.com/blog/magento-vs-prestashop/
This review seems pretty sure why PS should be faster, even if it can't explain very well
https://www.go-gulf.ae/blog/magento-prestashop-comparison/
This one says "small e-shops get-on very well with Prestashop" under "performance"
https://community.1and1.com/comparison-of-prestashop-and-magento/
This review puts Prestashop ahead, and rates some paid-for software even faster
https://selfstartr.com/ecommerce-platforms/
There are some videos to check and some reviews mentioning Open Cart alongside.

There is a bit about hosting at the bottom of the page as well.

Pretty

Not that I know of any measurements, but the ones with "specials" on the front page of the demonstration are always ugly for some reason.

Postage = shipping

I want to sell in as many countries of the world as possible with cheap and greenish postage. I don't want software from a developer who says "use the Fedex module, UPS, or role your own with this bit of rubbish I provide. Or search the forum in case another shopkeeper sorted this problem ten years ago for a previous version".

The developers who say this are so over-paid that they don't even use the post office to buy mail-order T shirts in their native USA. Post offices are usually cheaper and greener because they have a delivery round to most letterboxes on a street rather than one in my street and another a few streets or miles away. Post offices are usually public sector and not geared to writing free plugins for Posh-o-cart. So anyone paid under a zillion pounds a year ought to know that plugins for different post offices, or to help shopkeepers write their own plugins for post offices, are essential for promoting shopping cart software.

Royal Mail has 4 postal zones of UK, Europe, Airmail, and Oceana with various different services that change in price. My next post is a guide to Royal Mail's main services for individuals & small-scale e-commrece trading. I want to offer a simplified version that has a basic price per weight or price per weight to each of these zones, or at least to three out of the four. 2nd class to the UK. Probably standard rate to the rest of the world. This should not be much to ask but most shopping cart software fails the test - including all or most of the Wordpress plugins and including the one written in the UK I think. Here is something about Drupal shipping modules and here is something else and another thing. The developers get carried-away thinking about US taxes while ignoring worldwide postage.

Payment.

I want to use paypal for testing and then my merchant service provider - Elavon - for most real orders. If I get enough real orders I hope to shop-around merchcant service providers, but you can't haggle if you don't have the turnover, can you? No. We agree. And I do not want to pay a hundred pounds for the privilage of using the merchant service provider I am already signed-up to. Luckily this is getting a lot easier than it was a few years ago and some shopping carts do fit free Elavon modules.

Products.

If the top few points are OK then I'll play with the site and see if it can tell me things I want to know about stock, like
whether an advert helped a product sell. Remote-hosted checkout forms are bad for this - they confuse the tracking code.
whether a product has run-out.
If my software refuses to sell a sold-out product, then maybe it can automatically charge a customer at each purchase and save me a job.
when to re-order. This can only be a prompt, but still a useful one and I'm not sure how subtle the different stock control systems are or how to use them. Maybe they're add-ons. One version of Prestashop can even remember where a product is usually found in the warehouse and write that on a picking sheet. I don't know if that's the free version.
I'll have to learn the system for attributes = sizes as well. Some programs track a shoe as something that can be adapted to different sizes, as though these were like different sorts of laces. Others track a shoe as a range of several different products, one for each size, but sharing a supplier. I'll learn as I go. Presumably most software offers both options as a shoe in one size definately can't be re-sized to another, even with a broom handle and lots of leverage.
I want to search for products in several ways - whether my shoes are made in a democratic welfare state for example, or how well that country scores on a democracy index. Some shopping carts just have a tag for brand which they mis-label "manufacturer".

Afterthoughts:
  I want any blogs and other bits to be part of the same web site if possible, as Drupal allows and possibly carts that can be slotted-in to other sites. Perhaps Cubecart.
I want to have a wholesale shop and maybe some others using the same software and looking different to the end-customer, while a supplier might want to share my shop so it looks the same to the end-customer but stuff is sent from another place. So carts with the word "multi" in them would be good.


Avactis.com/pricing/

Not quite open source?
Paid-for version has a bundle of modules including language translation and a "custom" mobile version.

Abantecart

http://www.abantecart.com/shopping-cart-demo
promising
http://www.abantecart.com/ecommerce-documentation/admin-user-manual/specific-manuals/stock-processing-configurations suggests it can track stock of each variation of a product. My problem is uptdating it. Two trial installations have both got stuck updataing from version X to version X+1.

Allegrocart

Alegrocart.com/demo
Ugly. The developer is also a car and car parts dealer in Canada, so the program should be well set-up for that trade.

Agoracart

Agoracart.com/demos.htm
Unusual in being based on perl rather than php. Long established. Available through one of my web host accounts on a special menu for Perl scripts, but not on the other. Ugly.. Is it fast? I have not tested the thing or installed.

Axis

Part of a hugely corporate suite of programs sold from Amercia. This software is presented as open source. It installs OK from a script installer but I haven't found the admin logon to test it at all. I haven't found a demo site.

CS cart

Cs-cart.com/demo-item.html
Fast and pretty with smooth back-end data for shopkeepers, it says of itself.
One installer doesn't include it.
One installer includes it, but when I try to install I get "licencing mode"; the program doesn't seem to be open source and has a free version or a $385 version.

Cubecart

Cubecart.com/demo
Promising. More to follow. The developer pays UK tax that benefits me, and has no private equity funding, so he probably knows what a post office is. (Amazon and Starbucks are loosing customers in the UK for their failure to pay tax, which is great. Sod them) Getting back to shopping carts, Canadapost and United States Postal Service have free modules. Royal Mail has to be dealt with through the all-in-one module which I have used to set-up zones.
vimeo.com/cubecart instructions in 5 short videos.
Nifty but murky system for stock control of products which are sizes or other attrubutes of a type of product. A forum post suggests that the minimum and maximum stock levels show on the front of the site.
I haven't yet found-out how to get a table display of stock of each size of each product. As with most ecommerce systems, the forum has a small membership but can provide good answers.

As I write the new open source version of this product has just been updated to include cache modules for speed of download and so higher search engine rankings and easier buying for visitors. So this is an up-and-coming version of a long established product.

Drupal Commerce

http://demo.commerceguys.com/
You can now install Drupal from something like Installatron and the instructions for adding shopping cart modules are getting better. I tried Ubercart in about 2012.. It needed a shipping module. At that point the developers left, so there is still no shipping module. The developers wrote Drupal Commerce, which has neither a good Royal Mail shipping module nor a  way of connecting products on the admin database to products on the front-end. You have to enter them twice or install some kind of module for doing it. I tried it in 2013-14. The customers are exepected to be developers and the support takes the form of videos by people who don't say how they have set-up their demonstration before the video started, so you can follow it to the letter and find that your lack of something-or-other stops it working for you. You can see transcripts of the videos and links to them as earlier posts on this blog. Commerce Guys, developers, have received $7.3bn of private equity finance so they haven't heard of the post office except as a potential client - they haven't heard of it as a place where you post parcels. A pity because at first glance they look good people to write free software. It's just the way they're set-up that doesn't suit open source shopping carts for small business, and not enough people have found a way to jump-in and fill the gap of writing software cheaply or for free to help small shopkeepers on Drupal. My next post https://veg-buildlog.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-tourist-guide-to-royal-mail-and-small.html might encourage.

Magento

Magento.com/explore/demo
Slow. Reviews state that the extra features are at the expense of a multi-layered slow database structure.
https://veg-buildlog.blogspot.com/2012/01/building-awesome-e-commerce-site-in-25.html for example
A review says that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarty smarty templates are hard to learn-about too.

For all the money spent on this huge bundle of code, I don't see any great ease of use over other similar programs. I tried to train my Magento to recognise shoe sizes in my particular way. I even got hold of a textbook to train me in how to train Magento. On page 72 if gets difficult. I could probably have cracked it in the end and learned how to add my particular attributes to products, but I got bored of page 72 and then read reviews about bloat and slow loading.

Mals-e.com/featuresChart.php

Much liked by enthusiasts including me for ten years or so because it is free and stable, but it is also a shopping cart on a remote website that allows you to write order buttons that you can stick on your web site. In other words it is limited. I want to stop using Mal's because I want to link my orders to a stock control system. I also want a stock layout system that shows a shop window of my products with order buttons next to them, in some slick way that also works on mobiles an tablets and any other format that people invent over the years, and has some of the bells and whistles like better tracking of advert performance or slick one-page checkout on the same url. I don't want to loose the ability to rabbit-on like someone who always wanted to be a journalist. This makes my site easier to index. So, ideally, I will be able to keep a lot of text on the new more formatted site.

If there are ways of hosting one or two shopping carts with different urls but access to the same stock, that's unlikely to happen but worth thinking about. Mal's allows me to sell to a trade customer at 50% discount, and we would probably have met and found a way to work-around some of the limitations. It doesn't provide that trade buyer, or me, with a way of knowing what is in stock or anything like that, so it's better suited to goods I make than goods I buy in batches and sell-on.
Did you know that there is a $35 program for making shop sites with stock control out of an Excel spreadsheet? It can use Mal's for checkout. Xlecom.com. Another one called Rapidcart doesn't use Mals.

Opencart

demo.opencart.com
demo.opencart.com/admin/index.php
(type "demo" in both boxes to log in)
Promising at first. There is a Royal Mail module free. (post about Royal Mail here)
The installer provides an old version, but a new one can be unzipped on a hard disc, stripped of two files that have "config" in the names, and moved with a file transfer program to my server over the top of the old files.
Much praised by reviewers.
I've had a couple of bad days trying to make it accept stock, mock orders, categories, attributes, or shipping details - anything really. One online suggestion is that installing a module can trigger a loss of editing privilages which can be restored by ticking various boxes. I have done so. No joy.
Googling "Opencart Faults" I find a review on a site called techchattr.com that doesn't like the code. As I know nothing abut code, I rely on the review. Another on a site called websynn.com which likes the code but says it doesn't work for upgrades, which comes to the same thing. I think a free service needs to be solid because of course there's no technical support

Thirtybees Prestashop 


This is the one I went with. Search engines will find you comparisons of Thirtybees and Prestashop, and a long list of reasons why you should never stick with Prestashop if you have a choice. They remain open source but the company that employs their 4 developers employs  about 180 other people, all funded by flogging modules that you wouldn't need if the thing worked in the first place. Prestashop user forums show threads years-old about problems that could be fixed with a few lines of code. And the latest Prestashop 1.7 charges you $60 for a sitemap module that was included for free in version 1.6. Even 1.6 needed a free module for you to tweak the code - such as the style sheet - from the software's own control panel, or to add blog pages. Free modules were rather hard to find among a cacophony of modules from £44 upwards that they try to flog from your own control screens on the back of the program. From a staff point of view, the main developers have left the organisation and those who still work for it give it bad reviews on glassdoor.

Thirtybees is free, faster than Prestashop, and pretty with its new Niara theme. I might be able to use it without a single paid module, given a lot of style sheet hacks to compact the one page checkout. That's not as hard to do as it sounds; you can see how to do it on their "tips and tricks" page. Installation is easy on Softulicious or Fantastico, but not Installatron; it's worth changing hosts to get Softulicious or Fantastico if you want to experiment and make a lot of fresh installations. The software is slightly too large to install on Byethost and I don't know of free hosting that installs it easily, but it runs well on paid shared hosting that costs me £25 a year.

Stripe and Paypal payment modules are available free.

Countries are zoned, so that you can tell the software by hand that European 2kg parcels cost £10, worldwide £15 and UK (create a zone for it) £3. That's Royal Mail 2kg parcels done, without any extra module.

The future looks promising. Thirtybees is run as a sideline by a few developers who make their living doing-up web sites for Thirtybees and Prestashop customers. Very good developers, you discover if they happen to help on a forum. They aim to fix every reported bug and have worked through dozens left-over from Prestashop. This is a slightly precarious way for something to keep going and they welcome donations of help or money, but it does mean that there's no payroll to fund from up-selling; no loan from venture capitalists who need a return, and it's in Thirtybees' interest to fix problems instead of leaving them broken and selling modules to cover-up the mistake.

http://demo.prestashop.com/en/?view=front
http://demo.prestashop.com/en/?view=back
Promising.
Reviews compare it to its rival for most-used shopping cart, Magento, calling it smaller and faster.
Works in different languages by default by the look of things.
The backend has various mottos for self-employed people and might have a lot of feedback about how products are selling and why; it's well integrated with a tracking system. I haven't tested this carefully but that's my impression. The front end is good looking too.
Easy to test on the yourname.pswebshop.com site, but you have to use their expensive Hipay payment system if you do that or pay over £100 to switch to Paypal. (pswebshop Service withdrawn)
Compulsory add-ons are expensive - over £100 each - and one review says that Prestashop's source code is written in some complicated way, so that add-ons are hard to write and are likely to remain expensive. My own experience is that they are no needed, or, for the bold, might be findable free on github for example for Worldpay but that's a bit beyond my abilities and needs. There is a free easy module for Stripe, that seems to be about the cheapest easiest card processor at 1.4% for limited companies.

Royal Mail postage modules have briefly been introduced and then withdrawn, quoting changes in RM's price data as a reason and with hopes to re-introduce.

Version ?7, which I am on, has introduced automatic zoning of countries so it's reasonably quick - less than a day's work - to set up Royal Mail's three zones plus the Channel islands. So far I have got stuck on this. It works in theory but prices all my parcels for delivery to Europe, even though knows they're for the UK.

Another module provides access to label printing for RM account holders who send more than 10-12 parcels a day.

There's a thread about postage here:
https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/345084-module-royal-mail-display-real-time-uk-royal-mail-rates-incl-a-product-page-shipping-preview/ without resolution, but I discover a £30 module that allows some kind of table quote by price or weight, so if you have the patience to work through thirty-something European countries and sixty-something zone II countries you can write your own postal rules.

Spree Commerce

https://spreecommerce.com/account
Not on the installer systems for either of my web hosts.
Uses software I'm even less used-to than PHP, called Ruby.
Mentioned here because used by Bonobo - site that sells $100 jeans in the USA - and their main man makes a lot of videos about the how and the why - https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Andy+Dunn%22+Bonobos&tbm=vid - so if you use Spree Commerce you are well-placed to follow his advice about how to get a picture of the product on the shopping cart to reassure the customer or whatever other idea he tells us and his video camera about. He's a bit like a private dentist. He talks in a very relaxed, re-assuring way, and ends by charging $100. I don't know how to install Spree Commerce or want to learn more about software than necessary so I haven't used it.

Tomatocart

Tomatocart.com/products/store-demo.html
Mentioned by reviewers and available on installatron.
Multi-zone table-rate shipping is a freebie with a thread of comments and requests on their forum.
With luck that can be adapted to Royal Mail.
Payment  is not available for free via paypal or elavon. The forum has lots of comments about far-eastern payment methods but not about European ones.

Ubercart - the Drupal Add-on

Ubercart.org/demo_livetest non-working demo
...can be installed fairly quickly by someone who is used to cutting-and-pasting the right module links into the module adding bit of a Drupal admin page. A year or so ago, the ubercart site was covered in spam and any attempts to get shipping zones easy to use for the UK looked unlikely. Now the Ubercart site is up to date and there is a Royal Mail zones module, so maybe something will come of this. My first attempt was bogged-down in attempts to classify the whole world into Royal Mail shipping zones, which are described by a different set of country names to the ISO list, on a web table that says "others" are in World Zone 1. There is now a module that claims to classify countries by Royal Mail rules. After installing it and thinking it did not work for a few weeks, I discovered that you have to tick the "User Interface" boxes to enable user interfaces of every likely module. Rules I think is the crucual one. Then a set of extra rules make themselves known when you start trying to define them for other shipping modules, starting with "country is in royal mail zone".

There is also now a global shipping module that allows you to put all the the world's countries into different empires and then set prices to post to each, which is a lot better than things were, but the older tablequote module has been abandoned. As I look at message boards online, I think I may not be the only one to have trouble getting Global Shipping Module to do what I want, but it's hard to pin-down why.

Wordpress

...add-ons were un-finished last time I tried them in about 2014. They were presented as free with the most basic functions like postage modules costing £50 extra, and then card processing £50 extra, and then something else again, with nothing at the end of it beyond what you can get for free on hosted shopping carts: the functions were basic. This is a quote from Jigoshop about their free postage options "allows you to set five levels of weight-based shipping fees for your products. Simply set the upper limit for each required level, with the fee for that weight range, and those fees will then be enabled. If you require more complexity or want to have shipping rates automatically updated in near real time from your shipping provider, please check out our other Jigoshop Shipping extensions." I liked the customers - Wordpress is aimed at part timers - but not the software. I tried the traditional product from Instinct Entertainment - a wonderful name, and a new one based in the UK then woocommrece which is a fork of it. I tried these things about 2014 when there seemed to be too many wordpress shopping carts trying to make a living for too many developers. Things may have moved-on since, and the Jigoshop web site's history page says that it's run by part-timers. In contrast my last cart provideer, Mals-e commerce, provides one living to a developer, no support, no office landlord, and a solid system that doesn't break down.

X-cart

http://www.x-cart.com/shopping-cart-demo.html
http://demostore.x-cart.com/admin/admin.php?target=login
I wasn't sure at first whether this was open source, and how easily if could be used with Drupal. Kiril Marinkov of their sales team helped by writing this.
X-Cart Classic(4.x) http://www.x-cart.com/pricing.html and our new
X-Cart 5 platform http://www.x-cart.com/software_pricing.html are and have always been fully open code. Yes, there are encrypted modules for X-Cart Classic(4.x) created by 3-rd party developers. However for X-Cart 5 we do not accept encrypted modules of any kind to the marketplace.

The core of all X-Cart 5 packages is exactly the same. Higher packages just add extra modules and thus extra features. You can use the Free package for as long as you wish, as it does not have any limitations in terms of the number products, customers or anything else. And you can, of course, add features via stand-alone free and commercial modules http://www.x-cart.com/extensions/addons or create your own: http://kb.x-cart.com/display/XDD/Developer+docs

And speaking about integration with Drupal, we do have the module that lets you insert X-Cart elements straight into Drupal http://www.x-cart.com/extensions/addons/drupal-connector.html That said, with the latest update the module has been deprecated. However if you wish, I suppose we would be able to provide you with the code base to create your own integration.

If you come up with any additional questions I'll be glad to answer them.
I find that X-cart doesn't install automatically on my fast server or my free server. There is a new one click install for my hard disk, but it has crashed two or three times trying to install itself.
On the other hand, Drupal installs automatically and I've done similar installations to X-cart's before, with far worse instructions, so this is worth a try.

Zencart

https://www.softaculous.com/demos/Zen_Cart
I've not looked at this. It's a descendant of OSCommerce  apparently.

Hosting: Webperf.net

Good hosting is another way to speed-up a site. This probably deserves a page to itself, but the only comparison page I could find for web host speed was one sponsored by the top performer that asks the others to pay for inclusion. Webperf.net . Smaller newer hosts tend to do well because they have less customers per rented server, I guess, and then when the web performance goes down they drop-out of the scheme.

I worked down the list from the top, looking for a the first very cheap one. I found LChost at £50 a year plus vat and domain, but they have dropped-off the webperf testing site since. These are some jottings

Netcetera £36 ? VAT 5/80 GB ten and a bit.
http://www.webhostchat.co.uk/general-chit-chat-discussion/16175-speed-test-2.html says ignore number one in the charts - it’s a rigged result.

Hub Network Service - no cheap shared hosting - four to six speed

Xilo - cheap hosting page is a blank white screen -

Good1 - four to five nearly six - you have to ask them for a price - hobbyist

Fluent.ltd.uk -  - £120 a year for a small web site - four and a bit to five and a bit speed - telehouse

LChost were three and a bit till November 2016 then kaput . Don't use them for domain hosting as well as web hosting in case they block-out the bit of cpanel that lets you move your domain to another provider. If you get into this situation, Penguin-uk.net are good at extracting the domain name.


Fido.net 5/2/5 £59 five and a bit speed recently


My next post is a tourist guide to Royal Mail for e-commrece developers who don't live in the UK and don't know the basic services

Veganline.com for vegan boots made in the UK

Vegan shoes boots belts and jackets mainly made in the UK: not shoe shop shopping cart software, but the shoe shop of someone who wrote this blog because bad at choosing it

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Saturday 24 January 2015

Garamond open source font for ink saving - fails a quick standard test

Does it work for printing paypal payment emails? 
Garamond fails this quick standard test in HP lazerjet draft mode, but so do other fonts.

This is a slightly daft post because I'm not sure how to specify an unusual font on blogspot. If the typeface looks like something out of a 1930s american magazine, that's Garamond, otherwise not. Never mind. The source code for specifying a font works for a bit but tangles-up after a few edits.
The other font links above make more sense.

Anyway I get paypal emails that are a very good practical test of one use for a font. They say:

"someone has bought your item and the address somewhere down the blurb is
name
street numberbla bla bla bla
bla bla
postcode or zip code
bla bla the email carries on, and 12pt font shows
what paid and what for on the same page"

These verbose emails are a good source of customer's delivery addresses in a format you can bung inside a used window envelope and send without re-typing. If you want to avoid editing, then you need about 12pt type to get the payment amount on the same side of paper.
Garamond does not work well on screen at 12pt. Click the link & control+F to "the reason" to see the reason why. I have not read what the link says but it looks plausible.. Larger than 12pt it is still hard to read, and the email needs editing to get the vital payment amount and address onto one side of paper.

Garamond does not print well on HP lazerjet draft mode - that is in grey at 300 dpi. I can hardly read it at 12pt. The chances of it workng as well as OCRB for optical character recognition at a sorting office look low. This is a pity, because I thought while writing previous posts that Garamond provided was the best balance between ink costs and readabiliy. Now I think that if an ebay sale is to be trusted to the

  • scanners at the post office to recognise the right address and get it the right postie quickly without delay and human error 
  • posties to poke it through the right letterbox...
...then spindly type in barely legible grey is not the answer. Never mind.
Maybe there is some way of setting email software to display paypal emails in a certain way.

Infinate wisdom will be available on this blog some time, if not quite yet.

Oh this last bit is just about getting hold of Garamond font for free.
You may well have Garamond as one of your bundle of fonts that is somehow on your computer. If not, google an open source version which exists and copy the unzipped download files to your fonts folder. To find the fonts folder, search your disk for .ttf of .o ... no I've forgotten the second one, but those are the two file name endings most used for font files which are vector graphics of the extended alphabet in whatever font. There's also a way of getting google's online version which I've tried to use on this document while somehow stripping-out the line breaks



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Sunday 11 January 2015

Ink coverage for 300 fonts

For printer running costs and fonts see also

    I have some other posts about ink-saving and how to save paper with different layouts.
      Inkfarm.com/font_coverage.php is a good compilation of ink coverage by font, with slightly different results to the few tests on fonts for ink usage and printer running costs that I've done at the bottom of this page. This is useful stuff to know if your'e interested in printer running costs. Other tests from Printer.com or Which Magazine seem to contradict as well - it's not just mine and inkfarm's that are different. I've copied inkfarm's results order or lightness, then in alphabetical order, getting figures from their source code. So far as I can see, they have taken a set of fonts from their operating system and tried to add which font exactly is being used so they've added descriptions like EF, ITC, MT, FB, or LT.
      For some of the fonts I have got around to linking with a site that shows a large preview - AZfonts - or a wikipedia entry or even the company that produced the font.

      EF = Elsner + Flake                                     Wiki 
      FZ = Fantazia Fonts                           luc.devroy.org
      ITC= International Typeface Corporation
                       Wiki
      MT = Monotype Corporation                               Wiki
      FB = Font Bureau                                        Wiki
      LT = Linotype                                           Wiki

      This list mixes types of font. Calibri is sans-serif, and so slightly harder to read as printed body text. Inkfarm's own recommendation for readability according to standard rules of thumb is
      Baskerville Old Face, which comes in a free open source version. One way of getting a copy is to download and open the zip file, then cut and past to the windows/fonts folder if all the relevant background is in place.


        1.2500 HighEmotions [numeric only]
        1.3400 Palace Script MT
        1.3800 Bernhard EF Fashion
                   Identifont    Wiki 
        1.5900 Kunstler Script
        1.7900 Parchment
      or
        2.1700 Luke
        2.2600 ADONIS
        2.2600 Calibri (Body)
        2.4100 Binkley
        2.4200 Miles
        2.4500 Devon
        2.4700 Edwardian Script ITC
                                 Wiki
        2.6000 WishingType 
        2.6500 French Script MT                 no sample     Wiki
        2.6800 Huntson
        2.7700 Feliz

        2.7700 Feliz
        2.8000 English Script EF
        2.8700 Charlee
        2.9200 Benjamin
        2.9300 Sabina
        2.9700 Melted Text
       
        3.0200 Betsy
        3.0200 Bradley Hand ITC
        3.0700 Chiller

        3.1300 Vladimir Script                 Identifont
        3.1700 Maxell
        3.2000 Freestyle Script
        3.2000 Kartika
        3.2500 KingsFont
        3.2600 Eras Light ITC
        3.2900 Monotype Corsiva

        3.2900 Zapf Chancery                   Identifont     Wiki
        3.3100 Maximo
        3.3800 PaintStroke

        3.4700 Vivaldi  
        3.8100 FlairRoman
        3.8700 Informal Roman
        3.8800 Juice ITC
        3.9100 Blackadder ITC
        3.9400 Futura Lt                                      Wiki
        3.9600 Perpetua                                       Wiki
        4.0000 Britannic EF ExtraLight                        Wiki
        4.0100 Felix

        4.0200 Vrinda
        4.1100 WhiteWater
        4.3200 Stern
        4.4400 SmallRose
        4.4900 SnowWrite
        4.5700 Tempus Sans ITC
                         Identifont

        4.0500 Niagara Engraved                  Identifont
        4.0800 Chong
        4.0900 Dakota
        4.1100 Kendric
        4.1500 Papyrus [Letraset ITC]                         Wiki
        4.1700 Macbeth
        4.3300 Cassandra
        4.3600 Colonna MT
        4.3900 MS Mincho
        4.4000 Garamond
        4.4300 Courier
        4.4300 Courier New
        4.5000 Bodoni MT Condensed              Identifont
        4.5100 Rage Italic
        4.5200 Pristina
        4.5300 Goudy Old Style
        4.6700 Gigi
        4.7300 BEll MT
        4.7400 Cody
        4.8400 AE
        4.8900 Bruce
        4.9600 Diane
        5.0700 Baskerville Old Face             Identifont   Wiki 

               recommended by inkfarm for legibility 
        5.1200 Bonnie
        5.1300 Linea EF
        5.1500 Mistral

           5.1700 Tw Cen MT Condensed      
        5.2000 Californian FB
        5.2000 Poor Richard                     Identifont 
        5.2600 Harrington
        5.2700 Brush Script MT
        5.2900 Iris
        5.2900 OliveOil
        5.3100 Gill Sans MT Condensed                        Wiki
        5.3400 Blair

        5.4000 Times (Italics)
        5.4600 Agency FB
        5.5600 High Tower Text

        5.6000 Tracy
        5.6300 Bodoni MT                        Identifont   Wiki
        5.7100 Modern No. 20
        5.7300 Footlight MT Light
        5.7300 Niagara Solid
        5.7600 Celeste
        5.7700 Imprint MT Shadow

        5.8200 Times
        5.8200 Times New Roman

        5.8800 Brody
        5.8900 Lynn
        5.8900 QuickType Condensed
        5.8900 QuickType II Condensed
        5.9900 Mohammed
        6.0400 Bodoni MT Compressed
        6.0400 Onyx
        6.1100 Classic
        6.2300 PlayBill
        6.3100 Darnell
        6.3200 Chantal
        6.3800 Clarence
        6.4400 Dana
        6.4900 ReturnToEarth
        6.5300 Danny
        6.5500 Calibri
        6.5600 Book Antiqua
        6.5600 Palatino
        6.5600 Palitino Linotype
        6.6000 Corbel
        6.6200 Arial Narrow
        6.6200 Gloucester MT Extra Condensed
        6.6200 Helvetica Condensed
        6.6200 Helvetica-Narrow
        6.6400 Cambria
        6.6400 Cambria Math
        6.6700 Calisto MT
        6.7800 Candara
        6.8100 QuickType
        6.8100 QuickType II
        6.8800 Century
        6.8900 Maiandra GD
        6.9000 Franklin Gothic Book
        6.9300 Bria
        6.9900 Eras Medium ITC
        7.0300 Constantia
        7.0400 Herman
        7.0500 Bodoni EF
        7.0500 Hana
        7.0900 Balloon EF Drop Shadow
        7.1000 Century Schoolbook (Italics)
        7.1400 Copperplate Gothic Light
        7.1800 QuickType II Mono
        7.1800 QuickType Mono
        7.2500 Futura Bk                                     Wiki
        7.2500 Gill Sans MT                                  Wiki
        7.3200
      Maxell
        7.4800 Ecofont Vera Sans                             Wiki
        7.5300 Gill Sans MT Ext Condensed Bold
        7.5400 Felix Titling
        7.5600 Castellar                         Identifont
        7.6100 Plakata EF ExtraCondensed
        7.6200 OCR A Extend                                  Wiki
        7.6200 OCR-A II
        7.6600 Georgia                                       Wiki
        7.6600 Rockwell Condensed
        7.6700 Bookman                                       Wiki
        7.6700 Bookman Old Style
        7.7200 Consolas                                      Wiki
        7.7500 Perpetua Titling MT               Identifont
        7.8400 Calvin
        7.8400 Century Schoolbook                            Wiki
        7.8400 NewCenturySchlbk LT
        7.9200 Century Gothic (Italics)
        7.9800 FirstHome
        8.0300 Futura Md
        8.0400 Jackie
        8.1000 Arial                                        
      Wiki
        8.1000 Estrangelo Edessa
        8.1000 Gautami
        8.1000 Helvetica
        8.1000 Latha
        8.1000 Mangal
        8.1000 MV Boli
        8.1000 Raavi
        8.1200 RealVirtue
        8.1600 Lucida Bright                                 Wiki
        8.1800 AvantGarde
        8.1800 Century Gothic                                Wiki
        8.1900 Feltpoint                                     Wiki
        8.2200 Franklin Gothic Medium Cond
        8.3400 ModernArt
        8.3700 Britannic EF Medium
        8.3900 David
        8.4100 Akeem
        8.4700 Arial (Italics)                               Wiki
        8.4700 Helvetica (Italics)
        8.4700 Lucida Calligraphy                            Wiki
        8.4800 Arial Unicode MS
        8.4900 Microsoft Sans Serif
        8.5200 Lucida Sans                                   Wiki
        8.5200 Lucida Sans Unicode                           Wiki
        8.5400 Braddon
        8.5600 RoaringFire
        8.6300 Gatlinggun

        8.6600 Abracadabra  
        8.7700 Chinaone
        8.7800 Lucida Fax
        8.7900 Flippant
        8.8100 JustStew
        8.9100 Bitstream Vera Serif
        8.9800 Lucida Console
        8.9900 Harlow Solid Italic

        6.1400 Tw Cen MT
        6.3000 WalbaumFrakturEF
        6.4600 Sylfaen
        7.1600 Segoe UI
        7.6500 Viner Hand ITC
        8.0100 Script MT Bold
        8.1000 Shruti
        8.1000 Tunga
        8.1500 Times (Bold Italics)
        8.4100 Trebuchet MS                                  Wiki
        8.6600 Abracadabra
        8.9800 Tahoma
        9.0500 Verdana (Italics)
        9.0500 Wired
        9.0600 Times (Bolded)
        9.2800 Verdana                                       Wiki
        9.9300 Tw Cen MT Condensed Extra Bold

        9.0000 Lucida Sans Typewriter
        9.0300 Berlin Sans FB
        9.0500 OpenClassic
        9.1200 Comic Sans MS
        9.1600 Rockwell
        9.1800 Bitstream Vera Sans
        9.2000 Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
        9.2000 Franklin Gothic Medium
        9.2000 Micheal
        9.2800 MS Reference Sans Serif
        9.4000 Delaney
        9.4600 OCR B MT
        9.6900 Clowningway
        9.7700 Billy
        9.8300 PeopleStype
        9.8600 PlakataEFBoldCondensed

       10.0400 FontFever
       10.1700 Matura MT Script Capitals
       10.2700 Franklin Gothic Demi Cond
       10.3000 Cambell
       10.3500 Griffen
       10.3500 Kristen ITC
       10.4200 Jokerman
       10.4300 Denise
       10.4300 Lincoln
       10.7000 Lucida Handwriting
       10.8200 Eras Demi ITC
       10.9700 Algerian
       11.0800 Forte
       11.2200 Haettenscweiler
       11.2500 Desiree
       11.3700 Baily
       11.3900 Franklin Gothic Demi
       11.3900 Magneto
       11.4100 Cityscape
       11.5100 Clever
       11.5600 Futura Hv
       11.7000 Arial Rounded MT Bold
       11.7900 Elegance
       11.7900 Elegance 

       11.9100 Sublime
       11.9500 Century Schoolbook (Bold Italics)
       11.9900 Britannic Bold
       12.0500 PostBoy
       12.0700 BritannicEFBold
       12.1900 Mario
       12.3000 Elephant
       12.3100 Adriana
       12.4500 Bodoni MT Black
       12.4700 Century Schoolbook (Bolded)
       12.6100 LivingWell
       12.6500 Arial (Bold Italics)
       12.6500 Helvetica (Bold Italics)
       12.6600 Copperplate Gothic Bold
       12.7300 Adrian
       12.8300 Crash
       12.8300 Crash
       12.9000 Century Gothic (Bold Italics)
       12.9200 Berlin Sans FB Demi
       12.9500 Century Gothic (Bolded)
       12.9800 Josie
       12.9900 Arial (Bolded)
       12.9900 Helvetica (Bolded)
       13.1100 Action
       13.1100 Action
       13.1700 Bump
       13.2700 Bauhaus 93
       13.2700 BlippoBlackEF
       13.3600 Engravers MT
       14.0600 Bernard MT Condensed
       14.2900 Genuine
       14.6100 Franklin Gothic Heavy

       14.8100 VerticalSmudge
       14.8300 Junior
       14.8400 Destine
       14.9600 Eras Bold ITC
       15.1100 BritannicEFUltra
       15.2600 Broadway
       15.5200 Cooper Black
       15.5300 BalloonEFExtraBold
       15.8200 Verdana (Bold Italics)
       15.8600 Verdana (Bolded)
       

       16.0600 Gill Sans Ultra Bold Condensed
       16.5700 Arial Black
       16.7800 James
       16.8000 Counter

       17.3900 Design
       17.0400 Stencil
       17.6100 Impact
       17.9100 Snap ITC
       18.3400 Killian
       18.5600 Rockwell Extra Bold
       18.9600 MarketPro

       21.3600 Goudy Stout

       21.4200 Wide Latin
       22.6400 Ravie
       23.6700 Gill Sans Ultra Bold

       25.8400 Showcard Gothic

      =================================================================

       
       13.1100 Action
       13.1100 Action
        2.2600 ADONIS
       12.7300 Adrian
       12.3100 Adriana
        4.8400 AE
        5.4600 Agency FB
        8.4100 Akeem
       10.9700 Algerian
        8.1000 Arial
       12.6500 Arial (Bold Italics)
       12.9900 Arial (Bolded)
        8.4700 Arial (Italics)
       16.5700 Arial Black
        6.6200 Arial Narrow
       11.7000 Arial Rounded MT Bold
        8.4800 Arial Unicode MS
        8.1800 AvantGarde
       11.3700 Baily
        7.0900 BalloonEFDropShadow
       15.5300 BalloonEFExtraBold
        5.0700 Baskerville Old Face
       13.2700 Bauhaus 93
        4.7300 BEll MT
        2.9200 Benjamin
        9.0300 Berlin Sans FB
       12.9200 Berlin Sans FB Demi
       14.0600 Bernard MT Condensed
        1.3800 BernhardEFFashion
        3.0200 Betsy
        9.7700 Billy
        9.1800 Bitstream Vera Sans
        9.2000 Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
        8.9100 Bitstream Vera Serif
        3.9100 Blackadder ITC
        5.3400 Blair
       13.2700 BlippoBlackEF
        5.6300 Bodoni MT
       12.4500 Bodoni MT Black
        6.0400 Bodoni MT Compressed
        4.5000 Bodoni MT Condenced
        7.0500 BodoniEF
        5.1200 Bonnie
        6.5600 Book Antiqua
        7.6700 Bookman
        7.6700 Bookman Old Style
        8.5400 Braddon
        3.0200 Bradley Hand ITC
        6.9300 Bria
        2.4100 Brinkley
       11.9900 Britannic Bold
       12.0700 BritannicEFBold
        4.0000 BritannicEFExtraLight
        8.3700 BritannicEFMedium
       15.1100 BritannicEFUltra
       15.2600 Broadway
        5.8800 Brody
        4.8900 Bruce
        5.2700 Brush Script MT
       13.1700 Bump
        6.5500 Calibri
        2.2600 Calibri (Body)
        5.2000 Californian FB
        6.6700 Calisto MT
        7.8400 Calvin
       10.3000 Cambell
        6.6400 Cambria
        6.6400 Cambria Math
        6.7800 Candara
        4.3300 Cassandra
        7.5600 Castellar
        5.7600 Celeste
        6.8800 Century
        8.1800 Century Gothic
       12.9000 Century Gothic (Bold Italics)
       12.9500 Century Gothic (Bolded)
        7.9200 Century Gothic (Italics)
        7.8400 Century Schoolbook
       11.9500 Century Schoolbook (Bold Italics)
       12.4700 Century Schoolbook (Bolded)
        7.1000 Century Schoolbook (Italics)
        6.3200 Chantal
        2.8700 Charlee
        3.0700 Chiller
        8.7700 Chinaone
        4.0800 Chong
       11.4100 Cityscape
        6.3800 Clarence
        6.1100 Classic
       11.5100 Clever
        9.6900 Clowningway
        4.7400 Cody
        4.3600 Colonna MT
        9.1200 Comic Sans MS
        7.7200 Consolas
        7.0300 Constantia 
       15.5200 Cooper Black
       12.6600 Copperplate Gothic Bold 
        7.1400 Copperplate Gothic Light
        6.6000 Corbel
       16.8000 Counter
        4.4300 Courier
        4.4300 Courier New
       12.8300 Crash
       12.8300 Crash
        4.0900 Dakota
        6.4400 Dana
        6.5300 Danny
        6.3100 Darnell
        8.3900 David
        9.4000 Delaney
       10.4300 Denise
       17.3900 Design
       11.2500 Desiree
       14.8400 Destine
        2.4500 Devon
        4.9600 Diane
        7.4800 Ecofont Vera Sans
        2.4700 Edwardian Script ITC
       11.7900 Elegance
       11.7900 Elegance
       12.3000 Elephant
        2.8000 EnglishScriptEF
       13.3600 Engravers MT
       14.9600 Eras Bold ITC
       10.8200 Eras Demi ITC
        3.2600 Eras Light ITC
        6.9900 Eras Medium ITC
        8.1000 Estrangelo Edessa
        4.0100 Felix
        7.5400 Felix Titling
        2.7700 Feliz
        2.7700 Feliz
        8.1900 Feltpoint
        7.9800 FirstHome
        3.8100 FlairRoman
        8.7900 Flippant
       10.0400 FontFever
        5.7300 Footlight MT Light
       11.0800 Forte
        6.9000 Franklin Gothic Book
       11.3900 Franklin Gothic Demi
       10.2700 Franklin Gothic Demi Cond
       14.6100 Franklin Gothic Heavy
        9.2000 Franklin Gothic Medium
        8.2200 Franklin Gothic Medium Cond
        3.2000 Freestyle Script
        2.6500 French Script MT
        7.2500 Futura Bk
       11.5600 Futura Hv
        3.9400 Futura Lt
        8.0300 Futura Md
        4.4000 Garamond
        8.6300 Gatlinggun
        8.1000 Gautami
       14.2900 Genuine
        7.6600 Georgia
        4.6700 Gigi
        7.2500 Gill Sans MT
        5.3100 Gill Sans MT Condensed
        7.5300 Gill Sans MT Ext Condensed Bold
       23.6700 Gill Sans Ultra Bold
       16.0600 Gill Sans Ultra Bold Condensed
        6.6200 Gloucester MT Extra Condensed
        4.5300 Goudy Old Style
       21.3600 Goudy Stout
       10.3500 Griffen
       11.2200 Haettenscweiler
        7.0500 Hana
        8.9900 Harlow Solid Italic
        5.2600 Harrington
        8.1000 Helvetica
       12.6500 Helvetica (Bold Italics)
       12.9900 Helvetica (Bolded)
        8.4700 Helvetica (Italics)
        6.6200 Helvetica Condensed
        6.6200 Helvetica-Narrow
        7.0400 Herman
        5.5600 High Tower Text
        1.2500 HighEmotions
        2.6800 Huntson
       17.6100 Impact
        5.7700 Imprint MT Shadow
        3.8700 Informal Roman
        5.2900 Iris
        8.0400 Jackie
       16.7800 James
       10.4200 Jokerman
       12.9800 Josie
        3.8800 Juice ITC
       14.8300 Junior
        8.8100 JustStew
        3.2000 Kartika
        4.1100 Kendric
       18.3400 Killian
        3.2500 KingsFont
       10.3500 Kristen ITC
        1.5900 Kunstler Script
        8.1000 Latha
       10.4300 Lincoln
        5.1300 LineaEF
       12.6100 LivingWell
        8.1600 Lucida Bright
        8.4700 Lucida Calligraphy
        8.9800 Lucida Console
        8.7800 Lucida Fax
       10.7000 Lucida Handwriting
        8.5200 Lucida Sans
        9.0000 Lucida Sans Typewriter
        8.5200 Lucida Sans Unicode
        2.1700 Luke
        5.8900 Lynn
        4.1700 Macbeth
       11.3900 Magneto
        6.8900 Maiandra GD
        8.1000 Mangal
       12.1900 Mario
       18.9600 MarketPro
       10.1700 Matura MT Script Capitals
        3.1700 Maxell
        3.3100 Maximo
        2.9700 MeltedText
        9.2000 Micheal
        8.4900 Microsoft Sans Serif
        2.4200 Miles
        5.1500 Mistral
        5.7100 Modern No. 20
        8.3400 ModernArt
        5.9900 Mohammed
        3.2900 Monotype Corsiva
        4.3900 MS Mincho
        9.2800 MS Reference Sans Serif
        8.1000 MV Boli
        7.8400 NewCenturySchlbk
        4.0500 Niagara Engraved
        5.7300 Niagara Solid
        7.6200 OCR A Extend
        9.4600 OCR B MT
        7.6200 OCR-A II
        7.3200 Old English Text MT
        5.2900 OliveOil
        6.0400 Onyx
        9.0500 OpenClassic
        3.3800 PaintStroke
        1.3400 Palace Script MT
        6.5600 Palatino
        6.5600 Palitino Linotype
        4.1500 Papyrus
        1.7900 Parchment
        9.8300 PeopleStype
        3.9600 Perpetua                                   Wiki
        7.7500 Perpetua Titling MT
        9.8600 PlakataEFBoldCondensed
        7.6100 PlakataEFExtraCondensed
        6.2300 PlayBill
        5.2000
      Poor Richard                               Identifont
       12.0500 PostBoy
        4.5200 Pristina
        6.8100 QuickType
        5.8900 QuickType Condensed
        6.8100 QuickType II
        5.8900 QuickType II Condensed
        7.1800 QuickType II Mono
        7.1800 QuickType Mono
        8.1000 Raavi
        4.5100 Rage Italic
       22.6400 Ravie
        8.1200 RealVirtue
        6.4900 ReturnToEarth
        8.5600 RoaringFire
        9.1600 Rockwell
        7.6600 Rockwell Condensed
       18.5600 Rockwell Extra Bold
        2.9300 Sabina
        8.0100 Script MT Bold
        7.1600 Segoe UI
       25.8400 Showcard Gothic
        8.1000 Shruti
        4.4400 SmallRose
       17.9100 Snap ITC
        4.4900 SnowWrite
       17.0400 Stencil
        4.3200 Stern
       11.9100 Sublime
        6.4600 Sylfaen
        8.9800 Tahoma
        4.5700 Tempus Sans ITC
        5.8200 Times
        8.1500 Times (Bold Italics)
        9.0600 Times (Bolded)
        5.4000 Times (Italics)
        5.8200 Times New Roman
        5.6000 Tracy
        8.4100 Trebuchet MS
        8.1000 Tunga
        6.1400 Tw Cen MT
        5.1700 Tw Cen MT Condensed
        9.9300 Tw Cen MT Condensed Extra Bold
        9.2800 Verdana
       15.8200 Verdana (Bold Italics)
       15.8600 Verdana (Bolded)
        9.0500 Verdana (Italics)
       14.8100 VerticalSmudge
        7.6500 Viner Hand ITC
        3.4700 Vivaldi
        3.1300 Vladimir Script
        4.0200 Vrinda
        6.3000 WalbaumFrakturEF
        4.1100 WhiteWater
       21.4200 Wide Latin
        9.0500 Wired
        2.6000 WishingType
        3.2900 ZapfChancery



      Printer running cost tests of different fonts for ink coverage

      These tests are separate from inkfarm and just a dabble from AZfonts previews, accessed as urls to an online photo converter, downloaded as jpegs with 100% quality, then uploaded to http://lab.dejaworks.com/dev/inc-toner-consumption-calculator/,
      The choice of text could make a couple of percentage points difference, with Univers above Calibri for the first text sample but below Calibri for the standard Lorem Ipsum text sample.
      Re-loading a sample of Helios Light that had been on the blog showed an increased ink coverage from 6.82 to 9.77 for unknown reasons.

      It should be possible to skip a stage: save as .png and upload to dejaworks, but the background counted as black instead of transparent so it didn't work. It should also be possible to upload from azfonts straight to the editor, but a randomised default text uploads instead of the selected one.

      06.75 Roman Hollow FZ
      sample of Roman Hollow font used for an ink coverage test



      6.75 Parchment MT
      sample of Parchment font used for an ink coverage test

      06.82 Helios Thin PT
      sample of Helios Thin font used for an ink coverage test


      07.00 Eras Light ITC
      sample of Eras Light font used for an ink coverage test

      08.68 Informal Roman
      sample of informal roman font used for an ink coverage test


      09.49 Garamond MT Roman
      sample of a Garamond font used for an ink coverage test




      11.02 Baskerville Old Face
      sample of Baskerville Old Face font used for a black coverage test



      13.68 Calibri regular
      sample of Callibri Regular font used for a black coverage test

      12.49% Times Roman
      sample of a Times Roman font used for a black coverage test

      13.85 Gulliver

      13.93 Univers LT regular
      sample of a Univers font used for a blackness coverage test

      16.17 Adonis
      sample of Adonis font used for an ink coverage test

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