These are, by viewings, the next 10 most popular of my photos on flickr. They’re posted under the Creative Commons licensed, but if you would like to use them commercially, don’t hesitate to get in touch!

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These are, by viewings, the most popular of my photos on flickr – starting with the lined note paper, which so far has had 50,000 views.

They’re posted under the Creative Commons licensed, but if you would like to use them commercially, don’t hesitate to get in touch!

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Here are some high resolution background textures, provided under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License that can be used free of charge for digital artwork, 3D rendering, web design and print projects.

to use these textures commercially you must contact the owner via flickr.

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Here are some background textures, provided under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License that can be used free of charge for digital artwork, 3D rendering, web design and print projects.

to use these textures commercially you must contact the owner via flickr.

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“After Dutch holey cheese, there now is a Dutch font with holes as well.”

For printing there are great ways of saving money – and reducing your carbon footprint, by using Eco fonts, or software that lets you print with any font but still reduces the amount of ink used. Take a look at some of these sites:

• Ecofont
• Ecofont free font download
• Halftheink – though this is for PCs only (which is silly, as most design-for-print jobs are done on Macs).

Other things you can do:

Optimise web pages for print

Ever print a web page only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don’t want? PrintWhatYouLike is a free web page editor that gives you control of how web pages look when printed.  All you need to is:

• Enter the url of a page you wish to print
• Edit the page until it contains only what you want to print
• Print It! Only your modified page will be printed

There is nothing to download- everything runs in your browser, and it takes just a few clicks to remove the backgrounds or images.  Feel free to have a go at it as all changes are undoable.  You can even combine multiple web pages together – edit and print them as one document!

Pick the right font

Ecofont (mentioned above) is a project to optimize fonts for printing, without sacrificing readability.

Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink.

Automisation for printing

Greenprint is an interesting piece of freeware that scans through and helps to optimize the print layout.  With just a few simple clicks you can automatically tweak it so that you’re not wasting paper and ink.  The advantages to this over PrintWhatYouLike.com is that this works for printed materials outside web pages, but the disadvantages of it would be that you would actually need to install something not run it directly off the web.

So, what are you waiting for? Time to switch & save!

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