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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

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• Paper size and type is currently limited to 42" rolls of Hi-Res gloss photo paper. 

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Formatting Guidelines

• Set poster dimensions should be set to a height of 42" or .  If you set dimensions to 36" if , you plan 'll need to cut off the excess (paper is 42")posters should be formatted .
• Format posters with a vector graphic application such as Adobe Illustrator, and embed all images and fonts fully embedded.
  
  • Full poster-sized
  PDFs are
  • PDF format is also suitable.
  However, Microsoft Powerpoint
  • Note:   Microsoft PowerPoint is not a suitable format and
  can not
  • cannot be scaled
  if needed
  • without distorting.
   Powerpoint
  •  
    • PowerPoint is
  not
  • • meant for projection, not print, graphics.
• Proof-read your poster before submitting for printing.   We do not have the resources to re-print posters.

Submission & Printing Process

• Please email posters@mail.clm.utexas.edu to arrange printing at least 3 days in advance.  Printing may be done on shorter notice, if possible but not guaranteed. 
• Upload finished posters ready to print should be uploaded to this dropbox: , ready to print poster files (*.ai, *.pdf or *.eps) to: 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 Pick up printed posters in NHB 2.504there
• Questions?  Please contact Jason Goltz, goltz@austin.utexas.edu

Cost

• 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 Resize 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 the correct dimensions and resolution before placing in a poster file.
  • Oversized images placed in a file and then resized to smaller dimensions can result in an oversized file that takes longer to upload, process and print.
  All the excess
  •   And resolution will
  also
  • be lost.
    
  likewise the reverse is true.  Do
  • • For example, 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. 
• • • 600 dpi image in a poster file that needs to end up as 2" x 3" 150 dpi image.
  • Likewise, undersized images placed in a file and resized to larger dimensions can print out as pixelated and grainy.
• Create a new image file when needing a portion of an existing image
  • Crop image as needed and save as a new image file.
  • Do not use masks, which can cause unpredictable results, even if images are flattened. 
• Always create a new poster file.
  • In other words, 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
  • .