Poster printing at Mann Library

Objectives Explain requirements and best practices for

poster printing at Stone

Describe equipment available for poster printing at Stone computer lab

Demonstrate the printing process at Stone

Overview

Before Printing

Have your poster ready Online tutorials to help you with creating a scientific

poster: NC State’s "Creating Effective Poster Presentations”

http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/ Swarthmore's "Advice on Designing Scientific Posters“

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm Cornell Center for Materials Research guide

http://cf.ccmr.cornell.edu/docs/instructions/printing/posters.html

Good or bad points?

http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/examples/

Before Printing Guidelines from the program

Horizontal/landscape (common) or vertical/portrait (to better match boards this year)

Usually 3'x4‘ Photos and graphics are encouraged Remember you are presenting to a diverse audience,

not just specialists in your own field Consult with your co-researchers and mentor on type of

poster (scientific or presentational?) Acknowledge contributors (either in full authors list or

acknowledgements); funders (RCPRS program)

Best Practices Set poster dimensions before you start

working (Powerpoint) Images

image resolution

http://www.google.com

http://www.cornell.edu/identity/print/downloads.cfm

Best Practices Images

aspect ratio (ratio of width to height)

http://www.cornell.edu/identity/print/downloads.cfm

Need images? CUL’s Finding Images at Cornell guide

http://guides.library.cornell.edu/findimages Copyright issues

Creative Commons and Flickr search: Flickr Advanced search; check CC

Government images (all public domain) Google Images site:.gov

Find images on library website

Best Practices

Background colors Avoid solid backgrounds Make sure there’s good contrast between background

and text Avoid neon colors Avoid overlap in text boxes and images Preview poster at 100%

Best Practices

Font sizes (54pt) Font sizes (36pt) Font sizes (32pt) Font sizes (24pt) Font sizes (14pt)

FontsFontsFontsFontsFonts

Programs Powerpoint

Not designed for posters but easy to use, known Already created presentations can be quickly adapted Used with all plotters

Different graphics programs can be used, depending on skill level InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. Acrobat for making PDFs or others for jpgs

PowerPoint Templates on web (Google poster template) Set poster size FIRST! Insert images Insert or copy charts

Best Practices You can use either PCs or Macs but more

consistently positive results from PCs Mac users--we can try to print it, but there are various

compatibility issues Make jpg or PDF just in case!

Stone Equipment

The plotters

3 Canon Color Plotters Set up to either print on glossy paper or

regular (coated) paper. $14.00/linear foot, glossy paper $10.00/linear foot, glossy paper $5.00/linear foot, plain paper

Maximum width - 42” on $5 & 10 plotters; 60” on $14 plotter

Best Practices: Time management

Pay attention to due dates Allow time for:

Printing Drying Paying Busy queues

Closing policies Not possible to send things ahead

or leave poster

Printing a poster – demonstration

See brochure at http://mannlib.cornell.edu/computing/printingandscanning/printing/plotter.cfm for details

After Printing Spooling (cancelling) Drying Getting Poster

“Paying” for print jobs Computing Center operator will give you an

invoice Take to circulation/access services desk Identify yourself as Rawlings Presidential

Scholars Circulation will take your invoice, cross your

name off list, put invoice in program envelope, and give you a slip

Take slip back to the computer operators desk where you can then pick up your poster

Questions? Ask computing center student operators for

assistance. They are there to help with printing!

Send feedback to Camille Andrews (ca92@cornell.edu)