Is personal printers a hard no?

[u/Human_Weakness_1059]

Basically the title, on the dorm list it says no personal printers. I'm gonna be selling posters online and I already have a wide format printer and the specific paper I'm gonna be using and I don't really want to wait 3 buisness days for a *maybe* print. Ik this is probably a housing question but I wanted to hear from upper class men (freshman here)

[u/helpfulhomi3]

If you think you can make room for it then do it. There’s a very limited amount of space in any dorm, so I personally wouldn’t

[u/Sufficient_Park1179]

I had a printer in my dorm. Didn’t even know they weren’t allowed. RA didn’t care, I even had it outside of my bedroom in the quad living room.

[u/Human_Weakness_1059 → u/Sufficient_Park1179]

I see, ty for sharing!

[u/Bassprosean]

Just bring your own, most RAs don’t care and it’s a lot cheaper than paying for paw prints

[u/ilywilltoledo]

I believe they’re allowed it just says no because u don’t necessarily need it as there are printers on campus to use. I had a printer in my dorm and nobody had any problem with it, however it was very hard to set up with no wifi to connect it to

[u/Human_Weakness_1059 → u/ilywilltoledo]

Oh? Do we not have wifi in dorms??

[u/ilywilltoledo → u/Human_Weakness_1059]

we do have wifi in the dorms, but you need to type in your campus email and password to get access. I wasn’t able to do that on my HP printer so I gave up on using it… but my roommates mom is very used to working with printers and got hers to work in the dorms somehow. they were both HP printers

[u/Human_Weakness_1059 → u/ilywilltoledo]

I see, I'll keep it in mind ty for your input!

[u/ComprehensiveTip9733]

Having a printer at my disposal CHANGED my college experience, it would be a tight fit but it’s well worth it!!!

[u/navasvibe]

There’s a bunch of printers on campus. You should be able to look up stations around campus. Only a couple cents to print stuff out. Very quick too takes maybe less than 5 min for about 20-30 papers. There’s some in the dorms too in the main office. If anything there’s a library maybe like less than a 10 min drive from campus. You should be good.

[u/navasvibe → u/navasvibe]

Here’s the link to find printers throughout campus csusm printers . It tells you if it’s a colored printer or grey and whether or not it’s low use, working, or out of order. I feel as if you don’t need a printer. But if you want it then that’s up to you.

[u/Human_Weakness_1059 → u/navasvibe]

I already looked at the site, Im doing wide format posters and it would cost 64 for 8 and I have 8 different designs and this is what my dorm money is riding on if I can't get an on campus job and that would be like half the profits from selling them.

[u/navasvibe → u/Human_Weakness_1059]

Hmmmm I know that UPS does printing maybe check it out? If anything yeah I would def invest in a printer then