Faculty Help: Open Education Resources (OER): Printing OER

Lulu is an online printing service that lets you upload PDFs and create copies of books.  

• Requires PDF format
• Print in color options
• Design your own cover
• Choose hardback or paperback
• Choose regular book binding or spiral binding
• Took about 2 weeks from the time of ordering until it arrived
• Beautiful bound book with well formatted pages
• In my our trial, this was the least expensive way to print a book

PrintMe1 is an online printing service that lets you upload PDFs and create copies of books.

• Requires PDF format
• Fast upload
• Print in color options
• Binding options are spiral options or 3 hole punch
• Creating a cover is an option
• Took about 2 weeks from the time of ordering until it arrived.
• Very basic printed book

Having copies of e-books is great, but sometimes having a hard copy of an electronic book is preferable.

OER can be printed through the SFCC Copy Center.  To initiate a copy center order, you can:

1) Call the Copy Center at 505-428-1728 and request to initiate a copy job for an OER/free digital textbook for your class(es). 

2) Email the Copy Center at DuplicatingCenter@sfcc.edu outlining the nature of your request. 

Print jobs cost eight cents per page for SFCC students. 

Printing On the SFCC Campus

As an SFCC student, you are allotted $15.00 of printing on campus each semester--to start.  At 5 cents a page, that means you can print 300 pages.  Also, the folks at our Office of Information Technology have said that if a student runs out of this "allowance," $5.00  (an additional 100 pages) can be added. Computers and printers are available in the Library.

Please print responsibly.