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Academic Computing provides quality service for the design, development and production of research posters for it faculty and students. The production facility is located in room 2003 of the WBS bldg and is generally open from 8:30 am - 7:30 pm for services. |
There are basically 4 Steps to follow:
(1) Design your poster using one of the poster templates.
Poster templates are also located on the Blackboard in FIBE (for faculty) and in SORG (for students)
(2) Complete the poster order form (order form is on the Blackboard)
(3) Pay for poster at the Cashiers Office or complete an RFD for payment
(4) Bring the payment receipt or the completed and signed RFD form to the Center at least 2 days prior to your deadline.
Poster Preparation Hints & Tips:
- DO NOT Use Dark Color Backgrounds - It is suggested that you do not use dark color backgrounds for your poster. Dark backgrounds are better for presentations via projectors but not for displays. In addition, they tend to take up a lot of ink to print and requires more time and resources for preparation.
- DO NOT Rush Your Poster Order - It is suggested that you do not wait until the last minute to turn in your poster for printing. Ideally, it takes 1 day to prepare the poster and 1 hour to print and dry the poster. Thus, it is recommended that you allow a minimum of 2 days for printing of the poster.
- Oversized Posters - set up your slide to a size that is proportional to the final printed size of the poster. For example, if your poster is to be 72" width x 36" height, set up your slide size in Page Set-Up for 36" width x 18" height (i.e. half size)
- Fonts - please select your fonts with care and keep the size consistent as possible in all sections of the poster. We suggest "Arial" for sans-serif and "Times New Roman". Tables and text can be copied from Word and pasted into PowerPoint text boxes. You can then select and change the font type and size as needed.
- Image Files - Recommendation: images are ideally 300 dpi quality. If your image does not look good on your screen, it will look worse when it is printed as a poster. Images saved as a jpg or tif format should work best. Select from the menu " Insert, Picture, From File." when inserting your images . or Copy/Paste from a compatible document format.
- To Resize an Image - click on the image, hold the shift key down and drag the bottom right corner to resize the image in proportion. Selecting the sides will skew your image -- making it look too wide or too narrow.
Research Day is March 21st
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