You’ve been there. That five page paper is due next period and your printer crapped out on you. You’ve got no printer and your teacher won’t let you email the assignment. Where do you go; what do you do? Well, there are plenty of places to print on campus. Many, if not most, of the buildings on campus have computer labs which allow you to print (for free, if you play it right!) and there are places to print on campus that cost a few cents a page. Need to print in color? There are places for that, too. Here’s a brief summary:
- Free printing – the <emma> lab in Park Hall as well as most of the computer labs in the major-specific buildings will let you print up to two pages in black and white for free… But really, unless your teacher is sitting over your shoulder, watching you, you can print a whole assignment or two there without anyone hollering at you. If you make a habit of printing lots of assignments in these labs, though, someone is bound to catch on. Be smart, but don’t rule these labs out.
- Printing at the Libraries, Dorms, or the MLC- This costs 6 cents a page. Due to the crappy economy, this price always seems to be going up, but since you can still print most assignments for less than a dollar, its not something to sneeze at. A word to the wise- always give yourself a half an hour to get your assignment printed, plus the time it takes you to get from your printer to your class. Why? Printer malfunction, lines, accidentally printing the wrong draft… Don’t take the chance, take the time.
- Color Printing- This is at Tate Print and Copy, the Libraries, and the MLC. This costs fifty cents a page. Make sure you tell the printer that you only want the pages with pictures done in color- text only pages should be in black and white- if only for the sake of your budget. I have it on good authority from my roommate, a graphic designer, that these are NOT printers for art majors. The quality just isn’t high enough for art projects, but for those of us who need to print pictures with our papers, it’s just the ticket. I can’t tell you what the prices at the art building are, and generally speaking, the art department probably doesn’t want the average student using their printers, anyway. Art students, I recommend you speak to your professor if you aren’t familiar with the printers in the art school.
- Tate Print and Copy- Do you need a resume printed? A banner? A poster? These services are all offered in the Tate Print and Copy center in Tate 2. They don’t have their prices offered on their website, but they’re reasonable and, unlike all the other printers on campus, they don’t require the use of Bulldog Bucks. Yes, that’s right, unlike all the other printers on campus, this place will take cash, credit, and debit. And if you’re like me, and annoyed with the Bulldog Bucks system, this is the place to go to bypass all that nonsense. Good luck!
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