After a year of slaving away researching, nights of redbull, countless coffees, editing till my eyes hurt and typing til my fingers cramped, I had finished my honours thesis. All 76 pages, 16 000 words of it. But there was one step left before I could hand it in... I needed to print the damn thing! On Campus at the University of QLD, St Lucia, there are a number of places where you can print, but the POD (Print-on-demand) Centre offers a stress free printing and binding experience. It is located at the back of the Co-op Bookshop and everythig is orange so you can't miss it.
I had left it to the day it was due to print but had gone in to POD Centre the week before just to ask how it all works. The staff were extremely helpful, very friendly, and very fogiving of my slighly sleep deprived state of not quite consciousness. They easily explained the printing process. It is as simple as setting up an accounton the self-serve kiosk, finding your file (preferably pdf as this minimises chances of formatting errors), and pressing print. Easy as. The cost was quite cheap, even for the few colour pages that I needed and all three copies of my thesis were printed and bound within 20mins. I walked away with a smile on my face, stress free and happy as can be. read more