The software requires no change in the fonts you're currently using, and it works with your existing documents. It's also compatible with most all printers. The main difference is that when it comes time to print, the tiny holes in the multiple eco-variants of your chosen fonts save more than 25 percent of the toner you'd normally use, the company says.

Ecofont won a European Environmental Design Award last year. Its Small Business Edition covers 10 to 50 workstations, with pricing on a per-license basis. Most companies break even within 12 months, Ecofont says. Users of the software also get an official Ecofont certification and logo as proof of their green "creds" in their own communications.

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Targeting all the paper that gets wasted every day unnecessarily, meanwhile, is a package that lets you preview print jobs and then remove unnecessary pages, such as blank ones or those with only images. You can also use the software to create electronic PDFs from the files instead.

The result is that users can print dramatically fewer pages than they would otherwise, thereby saving paper, toner and electricity. In fact, the software even tracks and reports the pages, trees and money you've saved. Its enterprise version, meanwhile, adds the capability to direct employees to lower-cost printers.