Campus Copy

Is this place perfect? Oh no, far from it!
Does it meet most of your needs (especially as a student)? Yes, it does.
Is customer service amazing? Meh… sometimes bad, sometimes okay, sometimes good, very rarely great.
I’ve gotten lots of print jobs through Campus Copy during my time as a student at Dal. Their prices are pretty good actually, probably better than the FedEx place. However, the expertise isn’t always there in the staff and there has been more than one occasion where I’ve stood waiting for service for a long time without receiving any acknowledgement.
Still, the quality of the work is almost always there. And, again, the prices are pretty good. Would I recommend them for large, complex, crucial orders? Probably not. But for school assignments and some minor jobs, they do very well.

I wouldn’t suggest this spot as the «go to» print spot, but for those in the neighborhood, it’ll do. I’ve popped in once, ok twice, and have never been overly confident of getting maximum results. Alas, for substantial price-​points and less than eager worker-​bees, its a bit of a toss up.
Serious inquiries best check downtown. But if you’re looking for a quick print and low-​risk nature… Campus Copy can be ideal.

I can’t say i’m particularly surprised by the luke warm reviews for ‘campus copy.’ For one thing, they are a distributor of many of the course packs that Dal profs seem to compile with nary a thought to how poor their students are. Forking over hundreds of dollars to these guys just for readings that you should be able to find online, just stings a little too much…
I’ve always found the people working at Campus Copy to be pretty disagreeable and ill-​disposed to service as well: ‘Uhh, you want it stapled too?’ … ‘mmm, yeah, is that going to cost me more?’ cue: vacant, irritable stare.
These guys are more or less efficient though, and can get you that essay bound in a quick hurry if necessary.

Not the best but they hooked me up!
I hadn’t been to the Campus Copy before last week. I was expecting some laid back students, hanging around and doing nothing. Well I was almost right but a few of them were working. I had to print off twenty copies of a flyer I was sending around town. I won’t bore you with the details but needless to say there was a technical problem with my flyer and it was difficult to get a copy printed that looked exactly like the original.
Lucky for me, they had an overachiever working that day. He saw the problem and wouldn’t stop until he fixed it. Meanwhile I was entertained by watching a Simpson’s episode one of the other employee’s was showing on her computer screen. It was a slow day for them so I shrugged my shoulders and continued to watch. What is it? Like the 30^th season of that show? Back to the job at hand. After about ten minutes he finally found the solution. Now I am very technically minded as well and was doing everything I could to help and suggest alternative ideas. But he was always one step ahead of me which was good.
The pricing was fair and the employee who was doing the job was quick, efficient and friendly. If you are in a pinch and can’t get downtown, its a sure bet that Campus Copy can do the job.

I wanted to get some photos printed, and I didn’t want to walk all the way to an actual photography store. So, I lazied it up and walked over to campus copy in the SUB. It was just to put up on my horrible, horrible res walls, so my standards were pretty low.
I got the pictures printed on matte card stock, and three fit on each piece — making it about 75 cents for three photos. So far so good.
Then I asked if they could cut it out for me (actually I reminded them that I wanted it cut out, as I had asked them before it was printed) and I was told that it would be a little while, since there were people waiting behind me. Now I’m no super genius, but I think that if I am being helped by someone in such a way as this, it is not customary to interrupt that service because they’re tired of helping me, or maybe getting nervous about a line forming.
So I gave them my phone number and they called me back a little later on when the cutting was finished. The reason I wanted the pictures cut out was because I knew a pair of scissors in my digits would not be as steady as a straight edged paper trimmer under an experienced hand. However, I was wrong. When I came to pick the pictures up, they nicer ones were surrounded by uneven white borders and a few unlucky specimens had jagged edges. I was left wondering whether the paper trimmer was just dull, or perhaps the staff decided to use their teeth on this one.
Next time, unless it’s just a basic print/​bind job that I don’t really care about, I’ll make the extra trip off campus.