<p>Do students need to bring printers or do they have access in each of the freshman houses? Just trying to figure out if there is easy access or if it is worth having one in your room. </p>
<p>Youngest brought hers home and left it at some point, if I recall correctly. I would imagine the printing situation has only become better in the years since.</p>
<p>When I visited in March I found few printers broken/not working. BestBuy has a College student deal $45 off Epson XP-410 - makes the printer $35. Amzn has decent reviews , #1 best seller etc. I bought a Canon MX922 from AMZN. I am not sure if I am breaking the rules by discussing this but I thought I will give 2 options for parents considering buying a printer and btw if you buy a printer don’t forget to get a USB cable too just in case wi-fi doesn’t work properly.</p>
<p>@lovingasiandad … where are you seeing the Best Buy college student deal? </p>
<p>@kaMamom - go to Bestbuy.com -> Shops and Deals -> College Student Deals
You enter college email id and they email you. Don’t have to worry spamming . Click on the link they send you , it generates a coupon code. You can use it to buy online. Laptops $150 off, Printer is $45 off. If you go to post office they have a 10% off Movers coupon. This can be stacked on top of the College deal but you need to go to B&M. Hope this helps</p>
<p>Printers are nice to own but far from necessary. There are printing capabilitiies in the Commons, and in a lot of different areas on campus. It mostly comes in handy if you are working late at night and want a copy of something you are working on without leaving your study area. Make sure you either leave extra printer ink with your student, arrange to have it shipped to them from Amazon, or buy it for them routinely when you visit. They’ll never think of it on their own. No ink? Printer will gather dust bunnies on it.</p>
<p>After fresman year, I have never seen a student use a printer in their room! It is certainly a convenience. </p>
<p>I was surprised when our vandyson insisted we bring his printer home after his first year. Never made sense to me to not want it but then I am usually five years behind innovations and change.</p>
<p>I was thinking about buying a printer until seeing post #6 and #7. Does anyone know why students don’t like to use their own printers? I would think having a printer in the dorm room is so much more convenient. Does anyone know if it’s more cost effective compare to paying for each sheet of printing.</p>
<p>Last year it cost 5 or 6 cents to print a black and white page. When you add together the cost of the printer, paper and ink, you would have to print a lot to make it worthwhile to have a printer from a cost perspective.</p>
<p>My son did a lot of his work online and turned in very few sheets of paper.</p>
<p>I would think that the printers are less for avoiding library printing costs and more for printing after the libraries are closed. Personally, I finished many English papers well after midnight, when my old school’s library closed. I didn’t want to wait until the next morning to scramble to the library and print it out before class. My lab classes required me to print out the labs, and I certainly didn’t want to wait until the next day to print them out and begin working on them. But if Vandy does everything online, then I guess it really isn’t worth having a printer.</p>
<p>There is a printer in the commons dining area that is available 24/7.</p>
<p>If you find some crazy deal on a printer, you might as well buy one and let your student decide if they want to keep it/replace the ink later on. When I bought my laptop, it came with a wireless printer/scanner for $30… hard to say no to, that’s the price of printing 600 black&white sheets on campus, so it’s pretty cost effective (plus I used the scanner once or twice). </p>
<p>The majority of students eventually decide that it’s just a pain to replace the ink and the printer takes up valuable space. Vanderbilt is continuously expanding printing capacity and making printing more convenient. You can now send documents to the Vandy printing server directly from your laptop or even email it to the printing server. Then you swipe your card and pick it up at any of a number of printers around campus. Other option is just use a Vandy computer and print from there.</p>
<p>There is currently one printer in the Commons, but recently Vanderbilt had added a printer to pretty much every other upperclassman dorm – I would not be surprised if they soon add a printer to each Commons dorm.</p>