Butler University

Should I bring a printer for my dorm room? I will be living in Ross and I've read that Ross has a computer lab, but would it be best to have your own printer?

Thanks

 It's pretty much up to you. Butler provides black and white printing for free and you can setup your computer to access printers so you can print directly from your computer. They don't provide color printing though. Some Pro's of your own printer are you don't have to leave your room to get your stuff, you can do color, most come with a scanner to scan documents. Some Con's one more thing to fit into your room, have to buy the ink/paper. It's all up to you I didn't bring one and I was fine

Definitely take advantage of the school printers to do big printing jobs like lab manuals, 50 page readings, etc. (Although don't be that annoying person that prints these things off during the morning rush and jams the printer up when everyone's late for class...)

Now that I live in a sorority house where we don't have a computer lab, I decided to get my own printer just for the convenience of printing small things like short assignments or mapquest directions, etc and to have color printing available.

 However, I didn't have a printer for my first year and a half at Butler, and I got by just fine.  BUT... if  you are going to use the labs you need to be aware that the school printers get so much traffic that there is a chance that they will be jammed/out of paper/totally crowded when you have to print off an assigment 5 minutes before your 9:35 am class.

So...just plan ahead and you'll be fine. Free printing at college is not typical, so we have to live it up at Butler, right? : )

 Welcome back Christina! How was tour?  I went to quarters and finals...it was awesome!  Congrats!

So back to topic...yea I've done research at wright state and University of Dayton and both charge 5 cents a page, so those 100 page reading assignments would not do well for the budget over time.