<p>Should I take my own printer or should I just use the printer at the library which will cost some? what do you guys think?</p>
<p>Well, think about how much printing you will do. I’m a humanities major (and somehow ended up in 2 classes that don’t require books but rather use handouts and printoffs - score!), so I’ll be doing a lot more printing than, say, a Chem or Math major. My school has a certain number of print credits and then once you run out you have to purchase them, but I’m still bringing my own printer.</p>
<p>Another thing to consider: when and where will you be writing your papers? Are the library’s hours convenient for you and your work schedule?</p>
<p>I am bringing my own printer. Last year none of my files were compatible with the school computers and I ended up having to use copy/paste and email to transfer them and hope the internet wasn’t down in the lab, not to mention adding a half hour of preparation before every class to go to the lab to print-- because if you’re anything like me you’ll SAY you wont wait to the last minute to print out your stuff, but then you do it anyway.</p>
<p>I also print out my notes and assigned articles to read and stuff, so it’s really more convenient for me to have a printer. However, my boyfriend has one and never uses his. So it just depends on how you see yourself using a printer.</p>
<p>Take your own printer. </p>
<p>You will regret having to run to the library every time you want to print something. Especially if you are working on something until the last minute.</p>
<p>At my school we have a printer in the residence hall lobby so I just need to take an elevator down there…if that wasn’t the case then i’d bring my own.</p>
<p>How far spaced out are the printers on your campus? We have public printers in every academic building with free printing for students. I mostly print documents that I have to hand it in (because I prefer reading on the screen over paper), and I can print them on the way to class. Didn’t have any issues with that system in the past 2 years. Needless to say, I don’t have a printer in my room and neither do most of my classmates.</p>
<p>Well, colleges and universities usually offer free printing and maybe a cost after a certain limit. </p>
<p>If you print from your own printer, then you would have to pay everytime the ink goes out right? So the school is the bigger deal but if you’re like a procrastinator like some of us, it would be a good idea to bring a printer because (at least at my school) the computer labs don’t open until 9am and I always found myself needing to print a paper for a 9am class. Didn’t work out unless I left class and came back but I don’t want to miss any of it.</p>
<p>I’m taking a couple classes which allow me to increase “my maximum printage capacity”. So, if you have that, then you might not need a printer. But, it can’t hurt.</p>
<p>i’ve never owned my own printer and i’ve always been fine. i have way more print credit from the school than i will ever, ever use so to have my own was pretty much a waste.</p>
<p>If your school has free printing, that’s great. If there are printers available 24/7. Don’t get one, I guess.
If it doesn’t, get one. </p>
<p>I personally would never go to school, free printing or not, without my own printer.</p>
<p>There are stupid little things that you will need to print but aren’t worth a trip to the library, believe me when I say bring your own</p>
<p>It all depends on how much you usually need to print. If you’re just going to use it to print out course essays, etc. just use your college’s printing. I would be willing to be that no matter what school you’re going to, there is somewhere where you can get free printing. At UCLA, you got printing from the housing computer labs, and most departments offered free printing to students enrolled in one of their courses (i.e. if taking a life sciences course, you could get free printing in the life sciences library/computer lab)</p>
<p>Save the dorm space and leave your printer at home.</p>