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How to Get Free Printing

Printing at the University is no longer the costly and tedious venture it once was

Forest Casey · Ann Arbor Secrets · Feb 12, 2007

I’m really not supposed to share this one…

If you threw out all of the endless hours spent in math classrooms and the tortuous bus rides to North Campus, wouldn’t you secretly want to be an engineer? It’s a field that will never go out of fashion and one that would make your parents proud. It would be easy to pick up women with your prestigious job title and collection of fancy pens. Life would be good.

But what really would make me want to divest from the good ol’ boys at LS&A is the free printing.

If you haven’t heard, our neighbors to the north aren’t shackled down to a mere 400 pages per semester, they can print whatever they want, whenever they want. The complete works of Shakespeare? File / Print, my friend. War and Peace? I’d suggest sending ‘War’ to Printer 1 and ‘Peace’ to Printer 2. It goes faster that way. Yes, life is good for engineers.

But what about the rest of us? Most of us have to stoop to “Long Edge Binding” to make sure we don’t run dry midway through the semester, how can we print without abandon?

Well, if you’re willing to look on a campus map and locate Tappan Hall, The Crier has learned that printing on the second floor of the library there is completely free for one and all.

But before you fire up that 110-page job, here’s some advice: the printers are slow and old — “older than Zeus,” according my source, in fact. And, just like that elderly Greek god, they are sometimes confused by PDF files.

And use it sparingly, young student. The more use these printers get, the faster the University replaces it with a newer, faster model, one that isn’t so friendly to non-engineers.

Bonus Secrets - Exam Edition:

Students of Kristin Hass’ American Culture 201 class would be wise to study the Corliss Engine for the identification section of this week’s midterm. Also, it would be very prudent of them to give some thought to question two on the midterm study guide.

Students of Sa-Lin Cheng Bernstein’s Physics 126 class would be well-served to take a look at Concept Problem #4 from her Feb 7th lecture for their exam after spring break.

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