<p>do people usually print a lot of color paper?? I was thinking of just getting a black and white printer. Plus, would it be better to get inkjet or laser printer?</p>
<p>I got a laser one and it works great but the downside is the price and everyone will want to print with it, I had people printing over 100 pages before lol</p>
<p>what is the cheapest that one can go for?</p>
<p>I have an HP Deskjet (?) and I don't use it all. I think it's cheaper to print at Seasnet, but that's only if your a HSSEAS student.</p>
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<p>People should really start using the Bar to post these type of questions. That's why it's there!</p>
<p>I don't think I've needed to print even one page of color. My roommate needed my printer to print a photo whatever for some scrapbooking project, so if you're that type, you might want to bring a nice printer. Otherwise, a B&W is more than enough. The resourceful printer-less knows where to get free printing. Run a search, free printing has been discussed.</p>
<p>Agree with the post above. Look for free printing. You won't need a laser printer, or else your roomates or friends will freeload and you will run out of toner.</p>
<p>I discovered that a better investment is to use your free printing on campus, and for convenience, use computer labs. On the hill, you can get double sided BW printing for 5 cents per page at the ORL computer labs. If you don't live on campus, you can go to STC and print for the same price, but without the double sided option (that's 7 cents per page).</p>
<p>If you are printing out slides, you can put 2 pages on one side, and get 4 slide for only 5 cents.</p>
<p>If you have a seas account, printing is only 2 cents per page. So look around, and you definitely don't need to bring a printer, unless you like to print papers between 1AM and 10AM.</p>
<p>free printing is everywhere. also, you get $5 print credit in the dorms, which is useful for printing essays, as there is a 24-hour lab in rieber... oh wait rieber's closing... well there's bound to be a 24 hour lab somewhere on the hill next year. if not, de neve is open til 1am most nights.</p>
<p>personally, i like the convenience of having my own printer. mine is color but i never use it, and you can live perfectly well without it, so get some cheap printer and use "fast draft" to extend your ink cartridge life.</p>
<p>How about the maths lab at Boelter Hall? Is there free printing there?</p>
<p>idk, why don't we ask boelter...? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>oh forget free printing. the time you save just being able to print whenever you want is worth it. If you're about to go to class to turn in a paper, and see something you want to fix before you leave, it's much more convenient to be able to fix it and print it right away, as opposed to having to run to the computer lab to print....or not being able to fix it at all.</p>
<p>I bought a hp laser printer for like $120 or something, with a $50 rebate...and after the best buy coupons i had it came out to be pretty darn cheap....I haven't needed color printing either. I think it just depends what classes you're taking.</p>
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How about the maths lab at Boelter Hall? Is there free printing there?
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Come to the second floor of Boelter Hall to the PIC lab, if that is what you are referring to. You must enroll in a qualifying PIC or math course to use this lab though. If eligible, you receive $10 printing quota for free. I think this is per quarter. Printing in the duplex mode debuts 3 cents per page, and 5 cents per page otherwise.</p>
<p>If you do not qualify and is enrolled in the school of engineering, you can go to the SEAS lab on the other side.</p>
<p>Yeah dude, I have a laser and people freeload like ****. Others have used my printer much more than I have, and I print quite a bit.. printed the whole lecture supplement for 14c because those things were out of stock for like 4 weeks. I totally should have printed it out at the LS computer lab, because it was a PAIN manual duplexing it. This was even more complicated because i printed two slides on one sheet. for those who are interested this is how i did it, by the number of slides:</p>
<p>Print these first 1,2,5,6,9,10,13,14,17,18,21,22,25,26,29,30,33,34,37,38,41,42,45,46,49, 50</p>
<p>Then these on the back
3,4,7,8,11,12,15,16,19,20,23,24,27,28,31,32,35,36,39,40,43,44,47,48</p>
<p>Adjust accordingly.</p>
<p>Psych building has free printing, 100? LS lab has 300. I believe this is quarterly. I barely found this out recently and will be using it from now on.</p>
<p>doesnt your printer preferences have a two sided/duplex check box? usually you can just check it, then it will print and tell you to stick it back in the printer for it to print the back side.</p>
<p>but yeah, LS lab has 300 free pages for anyone enrolled in a life science course. lines are typically very long at peak class hours though.</p>
<p>Well I guess someone has to start recommending printers.</p>
<p>Personally, I would go with [url=<a href="http://www.officemax.com/omax/catalog/sku.jsp?skuId=21226095&searchString=printer&category_Id=null%5Dthis%5B/url">http://www.officemax.com/omax/catalog/sku.jsp?skuId=21226095&searchString=printer&category_Id=null]this[/url</a>]. Anything less would just be pointless! :rolleyes:</p>