<p>are there printers in dorms that have network connection capabilities that can be accessed from a wireless laptop. Or should one just get their own printer.</p>
<p>Well you can check on ASSU for example if you’re in Ujamaa you could check in:<a href=“http://assu.stanford.edu/draw/display.php?Ujamaa[/url]”>http://assu.stanford.edu/draw/display.php?Ujamaa</a>
if you want adelfa :<a href=“http://assu.stanford.edu/draw/display.php?Adelfa[/url]”>http://assu.stanford.edu/draw/display.php?Adelfa</a>
I think in general dorms have at least one laser printer and one scanner.</p>
<p>You need to pre-pay to be able to print on a shared dorm printer. It is also of a poor print quality.</p>
<p>I found it far more convenient to have a printer in your room.</p>
<p>yeah, def buy a printer. i did and i couldn’t have imagined the year without. esp for notes and power point slides put online. so people had to print like 20 to a page and the print was ridicuously small, just to save money.</p>
<p>I recommend buying your own printer, because you’re not going to want to run over to the computer room just to collect every print job. Also, you have to pay like 12 cents per page, which is probably more expensive in the long run.</p>
<p>Get a printer. You pay 10 cents per page to print in the dorms, and sometimes you can’t because they’re out of paper and Rescomp hasn’t replenished it. And you don’t want to have to go begging for a printer to use the night before a PWR paper is due.</p>
<p>Totally agreed. Cheap printers will give you decent quality; Walmart has printers as low as $23.</p>
<p>Right. Or you could pool w/ a couple of friends for a laser printer – $70-100 – and share that using the dorm’s network</p>
<p>^but then who keeps it at the end of the year? and who’s gonna put it in storage?</p>
<p>i think it’s better to just buy your own, but that isn’t such a bad idea either. just make sure you know who’s gonna keep it and store it when summer comes for next year, when you all prob won’t be living together.</p>
<p>the dell all-in-one printer for $70 seems to be a good buy. print/copy/scan in one machine.</p>
<p>yeah i got an all in one printer. they’re awesome. couldn’t have lived without it.</p>
<p>By the way, Stanford is pretty good about wireless internet. I have had great access in my dorm, at Tresidder, and in my classes.</p>
<p>^anyone knowin lag?</p>
<p>lag had no wireless in the beginning of the year. NONE. but then they started installing random routers around the dorms. so you’d get pretty good service around the dorms, but it would all of a sudden drop or not find a signal. it got a lot better towards the end of the year.</p>
<p>some people i knew in lag bought there own routers. but i suggest waiting and seeing how it is and then buying one if it sucks. i think i rememeber hearing something about making the whole campus wireless for this year, but i could be dreaming. i don’t remember.</p>
<p>^thanks wow people actually bought their own router! Why not just stick with wired internet? Hopefully Ujamaa have fixed up their wireless by now…</p>
<p>^people bought routers b/c the lounges and study rooms had pretty bad reception and that’s where a lot of people would go to study or write paper and stuff. so they’d buy routers for that. most of what i said goes for west lag. i’m not TOO sure about east lag (naranja and uj), but i believe it was the same. but i think the problem should be solved b/c i remember the last couple of weeks there was the actual “stanford” wirless network in lag.</p>
<p>thanks 
(10 char)</p>