[smartipants]

Good evening guys and gals,

This is aimed mainly at people who're already at uni, but feel free to chip in. I'm wondering if it's worth taking a printer to uni? I'll be staying in student halls, but I don't know if it's better to use uni printers (if that's even possible) or take my own and have it in the room?

Cheers

[Lilybee10]

Depends if your university charge to print off in the library. If they do like Staffordshire university do, I found having a kodak printer last year saved me a load of money as the inks were cheap and I didn't have to trek to the uni each time I needed to print notes off. Plus it means anytime you need to print, you have it to hand. It's much easier hope this helps


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[The_Lonely_Goatherd]

I have found having a printer very useful this year (I live at home and commute to uni, but we didn't have a working printer at home). The only thing is, if you're in halls, is that everyone else will want to use your printer. This could take up a lot of ink and paper. If you're feeling generous, fine, but make sure these people give you money towards the costs!

[Pandabär]

Do it.

I've never had one, but it's good for when you suddenly want to print something off at 11pm and don't fancy trekking back into town.

[Nirgilis]

It's much more convenient to own one, yes. As has been stated, unless you want to trek over to the library when you realise you have an essay deadline in 5 minutes and waste 5/10p per page of paper, I would say taking your own is much more sensible

[skotch]

It is useful. I brought one with me but never got round to setting it up (bit stupid of me...) and ended up forking out a fair bit on printing. Bare in mind, you need to remember to refill the ink and buy the paper for it!

[muffingg]

(Original post by smartipants)
Good evening guys and gals,

This is aimed mainly at people who're already at uni, but feel free to chip in. I'm wondering if it's worth taking a printer to uni? I'll be staying in student halls, but I don't know if it's better to use uni printers (if that's even possible) or take my own and have it in the room?

Cheers

I took my printer to uni and it was the best decision ever! During coursework deadlines you'll have queues at the printers and if you print something wrongly you'll have to get back to the computer and print it off again and get back in the queue etc which can be quite annoying and time consuming. Also you may need to print stuff off for yourself such as train tickets or anything else and you wouldn't always wanna go all the way to the nearest computer/printer room and do that.

Plus the comfort of sitting in your room and printing out stuff all the time such as notes, timetables, etc is just great.

So, just take it with you!

[Venom123]

Buy a printer and buy your ink from www.stinkyink.co.uk

I spent a fortune on printing credits cause I couldn't be arsed to buy ink. Wasted money!

[SpicyStrawberry]

A personal printer would be very useful, especially if, like my uni, the printer/system in general has regular disruptions! Unis charge different amounts for their printing services, but it does add up and it might be more sensible to buy your own so you can use it as much as you want without having to share it with others.

[Haz23]

I have my own printer at university and have found it to be extremely useful. It saves you a lot of money for a start, not to mention you don't have to make the trek into uni to print stuff out. On average, I went through 2 ink cartridges and a pack of paper per semester.

Having your own printer is a really good idea. I cannot recommend it enough.

[Jelephant]

Besides the reasons others have said, I've found that when using a uni printer, unless you're there as soon as it's finished printing your pages can mysteriously go Walkabout, resulting in you paying for it twice

[jelly1000]

I have my own printer and have also found it very useful. Meant I didn't have to go to the library to print off coursework/seminar reading and faff around with change.

[tc1991]

I got one in my third year and wish I had done it sooner, if for no other reason than everyone's deadlines seem to fall at the same time making getting access to a printer difficult, but with your own no need to worry

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by smartipants)
Good evening guys and gals,

This is aimed mainly at people who're already at uni, but feel free to chip in. I'm wondering if it's worth taking a printer to uni? I'll be staying in student halls, but I don't know if it's better to use uni printers (if that's even possible) or take my own and have it in the room?

Cheers

Very useful in all honesty, use the uni printers when they are available and use up your free print credit.
Having a printer is really useful when days get very busy, when deadlines approach or when printers break which do occur when they are flooded with print requests.

[thelawstudent]

how many times a week or how often would you be printing stuff out (such as essays etc..) if you're doing courses such as law (guessing it would also apply to history, english too etc etc)?

just want to know if it'll be worth bringing my own printer seeing as i plan on doing most of my work in the libraries because i don't like doing my work in really quiet and confined spaces such as in my room in halls but if needs be i will.

[.ACS.]

I brought one to university, and honestly, it was a waste. I used it plenty in first year, but in second and third year I simply stayed on campus most of the time to work and printed everything I needed to at the library. It's pretty cheap for printing, comparable I'd say to buying your own ink cartridge.

The only issue is that you have to be smart about things - make sure you know what you need to print and when, as otherwise it can be a hassle to pop to the library simply to print something out.

[PinguN18]

I have a printer at uni and its been a life saver. At deadline spare computers to print are like gold dust and uni printers are way over priced. it 25p for us to print a coloured a4 page and 50p for a colour a3 its ridiculous.

[Foghorn Leghorn]

Honestly it's probably easier just using the uni library one. Sometimes lecturers do you favours and print things off for you as well.

[jelly1000]

(Original post by thelawstudent)
how many times a week or how often would you be printing stuff out (such as essays etc..) if you're doing courses such as law (guessing it would also apply to history, english too etc etc)?

just want to know if it'll be worth bringing my own printer seeing as i plan on doing most of my work in the libraries because i don't like doing my work in really quiet and confined spaces such as in my room in halls but if needs be i will.

seminar reading-3 times a week- i had 3 modules and 1 seminar for each module a week
essays- once every three weeks

[PhoenixFortune]

I did, and it's so useful! My library charges to print things out and the printers always have long queues (it gets even worse during the summer term, as dissertation deadlines loom). If you don't have the money to spend now, or you aren't sure, you could always wait until you get there to see what the facilities like, if you haven't seen them already at an open day.