<p>Does anyone have advice as to whether or not incoming freshmen need their own personal printer? Are there tons of them conveniently located all over the campus for student’s use, or is everything online so no need to print? Do they cost a lot to use?</p>
<p>I don’t do a lot of printing because I don’t mind reading on the computer that much. When I do need to print, I have no problem doing it at the library, and you do get $30.00 for free each year.</p>
<p>It may depend on your courses and your own preference.</p>
<p>There are printers on campus, including in the CIT, but I found it easier to have my own, particularly because I didn’t want to walk there from Pembroke Campus every time I needed to print something.</p>
<p>Depends on how much printing you’ll be doing! If you’re an engineer you get free unlimited printing. everyone else gets $30 per year which is generally sufficient unless you hate reading on the computer.</p>
<p>If you’re a procrastinator bring a printer because otherwise you’ll have to run to the library and have to find an available computer (which is no easy feat during exams) to print off of. </p>
<p>My feeling is that most people dont have a printer and are fine, but its def nice to have</p>
<p>If you do get a printer get an inexpensive B&W laser. Inkjets are slow and 4 times the cost per page.</p>
<p>We looked into not getting our daughter a printer, and decided we had to. There are not printers in the dorms, so you have to walk somewhere to find one. Which is not pleasant to do in the rain or snow, or late at night.</p>
<p>We also bought an inexpensive B&W laser – a Brother that with discount came in well under $100. The toner cartridge gets 2500 pages. Much much better than an inkjet. My daughter has never needed a color printer.</p>
<p>How useful would a multi-function machine be? As far as printing is concerned, I think laser would be the way to go. But laser multi-function machines are very bulky. I suppose students wouldn’t have reason to copy much in their rooms, but DD might have use for a scanner (depositing the rare check on-line, which we can do with our bank).</p>
<p>Multi-function is not really useful. I had one my first two years (until it broke) and scanned something maybe twice, and only out of laziness.</p>
<p>One other issue: when your friends learn that you have a scanner, they will ask you to scan/copy things for them (at least this happened to me).</p>
<p>I just got a printer today. HP, less than $100; it copies, is small, is wireless, and, most importantly, prints.</p>
<p>I’m pretty happy with my purchase. And I’m glad to find out having a printer of one’s own isn’t a rare thing.</p>
<p>You can charge people to use yours. Make some extra cash. And dammit. It sucks when you can’t even make harmless racist jokes. ■■■ this PC. It kills all the fun</p>
<p>You can print anywhere for free. You just have to figure out how. The library’s printers have stupid bugs.
If you are CS student you can print in the SunLab for free. Someone said something about engineering. Personally, I wouldn’t buy a printer. You are just contributing to e waste and global warming and all that stuff.</p>
<p>If you don’t want to get a printer you can always talk to your roommate and see if he/she might want to just bring one and share it. Both people can pitch in for ink/toner/etc.</p>
<p>Also, I found this on the Brown Library page:
“All students can send documents from their residence hall rooms, or from a wireless connection using the Virtual Private Network (VPN) client, to the PAW (People Against Waste) Prints queue and release them for printing in the clusters or at the CIT dispatch window.”</p>
<p>[Brown</a> University Library](<a href=“http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/copyprint.php]Brown”>Printing and Copying)</p>
<p>Yeah you can always smooch off of your roommate 
(no sarcasm)</p>
<p>Laser toner cartridges recycle. Stimulate the economy and buy a laser printer. Stick with USB as wireless printers tend to be troublesome. When it is late at night and the snow is blowing outside and you are working with an imminent deadline you will not regret spending the money on a printer.</p>
<p>I’m planning on bringing my printer. It’s not like I have to go out and buy one so I figure I might as well.<br>
Running around to find a printer right before a paper is due does not sound like fun. Especially in the rain/snow.</p>
<p>While inkjet initially is cheaper, each ink cartridge can print A LOT less pages than laser printer.</p>