Thomas

How to Lower Student Printing Costs

1. When collecting information for homework and papers, instead of printing web pages:
1. Email the page to yourself (in Internet Explorer, click on "File", "Send", "Page by Email", etc.)
2. Save the page to your P: drive since you can put thousands of pages of text in this location (in Internet Explorer, click on "File", "Save As", etc.)
3. Add the page to your Favorites (this only works on your personal computer--in Internet Explorer, click on "Favorites", "Add"--you can later go back to Favorites to get back to the same page)
4. Copy the information to a MS Word, Excel, or PowerPoint (highlight the information with your mouse, click on "Edit", "Copy", then go to Word, Excel or PowerPoint and after opening a new document, click on "Edit", "Paste"
5. For those who don't have a computer at home or in their room, preview the information to make sure what you would like to print is valuable and that the web page being printed is not dozens of pages in length
2. Try to proof read your assignments on the screen using the spell checking and grammar tools in many software products.
3. See if your instructor will accept electronic documents. (Some instructors won't because it is not as portable, convenient, or because it may cause eye strain.)