The department has a shared HP T1700 wide format printer available to all Neuroscience Dept, Institute for Neuroscience, Center for Learning and Memory, and Waggoner Center faculty, staff and students.
Printing Restrictions
- Printing goes through one designee (currently Jason Goltz)
- Paper size and type is currently limited to 42" rolls of Hi-Res gloss photo paper.
Printing Guidelines
- poster dimensions should be set to a height of 42" or 36" if you plan to cut off the excess (paper is 42")
- posters should be formatted with a vector graphic application such as Adobe Illustrator and all images and fonts fully embedded. Full poster sized PDFs are also suitable. However, Microsoft Powerpoint is not suitable and can not be scaled if needed without distorting. Powerpoint is not meant for print graphics.
- finished posters ready to print should be uploaded to this dropbox: https://utexas.app.box.com/f/f7550bf19d23498aa6bbefbd485d24e2
- please make sure posters are fully proof-read before uploading. We do not have the resources to print multiple times per person
- once complete finished posters will be available in the CLM/Neuro office suite in NHB 2.504
- there is currently no fee associated with these printing services as long as costs are kept to a minimum.
- for poster printing questions please contact Jason Goltz, goltz@austin.utexas.edu
Printing Tips & Suggestions
- when placing images resize them to 1x-2x the final print size. e.g. if an image you are embedding needs to be a 2" x 3" 150 dpi image, do not place a 8" x 10" 600 dpi image and then click and drag to shrink it down to size. Oversized images can create giant print files that take much longer to upload, process and print. All the excess resolution will also be lost.
- likewise the reverse is true. Do not place small images in a 8" x 10" art board that then needs to be printed at 42" x 56" because images and possibly text can come out pixilated and grainy.
- When using a portion of an image for a figure make a new image file with that portion of the image cropped. Do not use masks. Masks can be unpredictable with multilayered files even if flattening.
- don't reuse a past template. Errors and unseen masks or elements that were remnants from previous posters can effect the printing of the new poster. Always create from an new fresh file.
- Don't use Powerpoint, it is meant for projection graphics and doesn't play nice with plotters/poster printers.