Pomona College provides many resources to its students in order to make their lives a little easier, such as the escort service, printing quotas, and housekeeping services in students' private bathrooms. The fine folks here at The Student Life would like to highlight another resource that is underappreciated: Duplicating Services.

Duplicating Services, located in Alexander Hall (the power building), is amazing. Staffed by Hilda Dinolfo and Connie Inman, Duplicating Services offers full-service photocopying, color copying, printing, laminating, binding, transparency-making, table tent printing, and more—all for incredibly reasonable prices. More than reasonable, in fact; it's the cheapest you'll find.

The fine people at Duplicating Services will make photocopies on any color paper for four cents per copy, and you can upgrade to cardstock for just two cents more. One-sided color copies cost just 30 cents (compared to one dollar in the computer lab) and it's 15 cents for the second side. The staff even does its best to get orders done the same day.

Even if you have a complicated order, they will handle it, and with no additional fees. Duplicating Services will even print and photocopy from electronic files submitted by e-mail —you do not even have to leave your room. Let's say you have an electronic file that is 50 pages and you want double-sided copies made on different colors of cardstock; also, you want certain sides of certain pages printed in color and others in black and white. The staff will do it flawlessly, and can have it done for you the same day (well, most likely). They will even smile.

Many student organizations and faculty members utilize Duplicating Services. However, it is far less common for individual students to use Duplicating Services for personal projects. Being able to pass some of your work off to someone else, for a very small fee, greatly helps to relieve stress. So, next time you need to make hand-outs for class, print invitations, or print digital photographs, take your order to Duplicating Services. As per usual, the fine folks at The Student Life are simply trying to help out and inform the community.