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Poster Printing
For more information, please contact Tom Tran at
ttran40@csulb.edu.
Note: Poster printing service is only for current CSULB members.
Before You Begin
Prior to printing the poster, you will need to:
- If payment by a grant:
- Obtain your mentor's signature on an 8.5" X 11" size print proof of your poster or have your mentor send Tom an e-mail approving your poster
- Have the grant's PI send Tom an e-mail with a Foundation project/grant number approving payment for your poster before printing
- If payment by you:
- Please make your check payable to "CSULB Foundation"
- At the top of your check, write your campus ID
- If payment by a department:
- We cannot accept startup funds/state funds (only exception is pre-approved by your department chair & Henry Wu)
- For Foundation Account, please have the authorized account personnel send Tom an e-mail approving the poster's cost to be transferred along with the poster's owner name
- Payment is due before printing, thank you.
The recommended software to use for creating your poster is MS PowerPoint version 2007.
When submitting your poster file for printing, it must be print-ready. All graphs and pictures should already
have been imported into the poster. We do not provide test print or proof. I only accept e-mail's attached from @csulb.edu.
Hours of Operation
J. SAS Lab technicians will print the poster during posted open hours.
However, no print job will be accepted after 3:00 pm (Mon - Thurs), 12:00 pm on Friday. Each print takes up to one hour,
depending on the content's complexity. Poster will be ready for pickup up to one business day.
An appointment is required for printing via e-mail. A courtesy 1-week notice will be greatly appreciated.
During peak printing days*, posters will be ready for pickup the next business day unless special arrangement is made.
*CNSM Symposium in September, last three weeks of each academic terms, last week of summer sessions, and Psych Day in March
HP DesignJet 500 & 800PS
- 600x600 dpi Best
- 36 inches HP High Gloss Photo roll
- 42 inches HP High Gloss Photo roll
Supported Software
- Windows MS PowerPoint 2003 (recommend embedded TrueFont) or 2007 (preferred)
Page Size
- One side needs to be 36" or 42"
- Poster margins (minimum of 1 inch) should be left between your poster's content
and the edge of the page
Font Size
The following are the minimum sizes for each section of the poster:
| Section |
Size* |
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| Title |
... |
85pt |
| Authors and origin |
... |
56pt |
| Sub-headings |
... |
36pt |
| Body Text |
... |
24pt |
| Captions |
... |
18pt |
| *size will vary according to the length of the title |
Resolution
- Avoid resolution overkill when scanning which can result in enormous file sizes
- 180 X 300 dpi recommended @ 5"x7"
- Images from the Web are almost always unsuitable for printing
- The best file type is a JPEG file (*.jpg)
Sample and Templates
Use these files as an example when creating your poster. While they are not necessarily the required
template for all posters, they may generate some ideas as to how your poster should look.
Here is a JPEG file (*.jpg) example. Click on the image to view a larger version:
The PowerPoint Presentation file (*.ppt) used to create the poster above.
Note: We are using PowerPoint 2007 (*.pptx) Windows version.
Common Problems
• Using GIF image gave HP Designjet 800PS print driver an error message, easily fixed by converting the image to a JPEG or PNG.
• When placing an image on the poster, do not use the copy/paste command. Instead, use inserts image command. Again, the image format supported is JPEG and PNG. Screen capture of images not displaying.
• Tiff format is not supported.
• Tables copy from Excel or Word need to be converted to an image file (JPEG or PNG). If not, data may get return to second line because of lack of space within the box or compressed.
• For PowerPoint 2003 or earlier version, when saving your document, embed TrueFont into your file to prevent the overrun of text inside the textbox (see example ).
• Using space bar to indent a line may result shift in paragraph or sentences when printed.
• 42” x 56” poster, right side black border being shifted, fixed by resizing the poster down to 40” x 54”
• PDF file works best.
• How to change the resolution of a slide that you export as a picture in PowerPoint
(How to export a slide to JPG/PNG image up to 300 dpi; default 96 dpi)
• Ink fading situation annoucement (05/31/2007)
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