Yeah, a super cheap inkjet printer like a canon Pixma ts-3522 costs like $40, and paper is like $5, so the ten cent library pages are cheaper if you're printing less than 450 sheets over the maybe 18 month period that your ink is good before you need to shell out another $30 for more cartridges because they dried out.

actually yes & I once drunkenly walked across campus with my roommate to the library at like 3am to prove to him that you could do this - which was egregious given that the university libraries literally had printers near the entrance to the stacks/study tables on all six floors with giant "USE YOUR UNIVERSITY ID OR A CREDIT CARD TO PRINT. $0.10/PAGE B/W, $0.15/PAGE COLOR" signs plastered on the walls around them and each printer had a book/document scanner right next to it specifically so you could copy & print anything from the library on the fly; yet he was so fucking adamant that there was no way you could print anything at the library.

makes me mad to this day because it was literally one of those 'you have uno motherfucker' kind of arguments where no one wins except the audience, some of whom still bring it up to this day whenever they see me because we were literally physically fighting each-other until his girlfriend went "can you two please shut the fuck up & just go to the library to settle this?? w-wait where are you going??"

Not even in the top 3 dumbest arguments I had with that fucking himbo throughout the year we lived together FYI

It's again an infrastructure problem. I live in a small town where the library is not open all the time and often I need to print things on short notice (medical stuff) so I gotta own some kind of a printer (ironically I own an HP inkjet and it's serving me well with no issues whatsoever).