Having your own printer, in fact having all your own computer, software etc while at uni and not having to rely on the facilities is great. You should be able to rely on the uni facilities, but you know that doesn't always happen - of course the uni facilities are great until you need to get something done in a rush. You know the day before deadline when you want to print your work out the uni printer is going to be either broken, run out of ink, run out of paper, the technition ill, or theres going to be a massive queue. Then if you are lucky enough to have your work printed out, there will be some kind of issue with it, such as a problem with quality, you didnt notice a layout mistake - things not lining up correctly or an obvious typo, the colours are incorrect, unexpected result with the paper stock but then you dont have time to resolve it - nightmare! With your own printer, you have the abiliy to print off your project at 3am the or even 7am on deadline day, knowing that it will print off perfectly. Its worth the £200 eassily! Best investment ever...