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Designing Posters

Printing Posters

Dry-Mounting & Laminating Posters

Hanging Posters in Sitterson

Designing Posters
The following four PowerPoint files provide information and templates for creating research project posters to be hung on the walls of the Department of Computer Science. Posters may be created with other dimensions, but if the poster is to be printed on the department's plotter, it must be no wider than 35" (see "Printing Posters" below).

24" x 35" Posters

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Poster Template with Old Well Background (courtesy Andrea Mantler)

Printing Posters
Please note that students and faculty from departments other than Computer Science are not permitted to use the HP DesignJet printer in Sitterson Hall. The only exception to this rule is if your poster is for a Department of Computer Science-affiliated project. If you are not a member of the Department of Computer Science, you can contact Medical Illustration and Photography or FedEx Kinkos to have your poster printed.

Wall posters are printed on the HP DesignJet 1055cm Plus plotter, which is located in the Graphics & Image Lab (Glab). The plotter prints on paper that is 36" wide; when printing a poster based one of the above templates, be sure that the "portrait" orientation is selected. You should also select paper size "ARCH E".

The plotter driver is currently installed on a couple of public machines in the Glab. These machines seem to move around, periodically and get renamed, so providing their names here is tricky. The name of the printer may also be different on different machines, depending on what the person installing the printer driver decided to call it. When you go to print the poster, in the Print menu, you may be selecting either "HP Design Jet in Glab", "hpplotter" or some other name entirely.

If you wish to download and install the printer driver on your own machine, visit "http://www.cs.unc.edu/help/hpplotterinstall.html" .

For assistance in printing your posters, please contact the Publications & Publicity Manager, 962-1790 (pubs at cs.unc.edu).

Dry-Mounting & Laminating Posters
Posters can be laminated, drymounted or both. Most of the posters around the department have been drymounted and have a matte laminate finish to protect them from fading, and it is preferable that you have your poster drymounted if you would like it hung somewhere in the building. If you need assistance with having your poster laminated or drymounted, please provide the Publications & Publicity Manager with the printed poster, and an account number. If you are planning to take your poster to a conference or other event where you need to transport it (particularly on a plane), you will not want to have it laminated or drymounted first as it will be difficult to transport.

Please note that drymounting is a high-heat process. If your poster is printed with a waxy finish, or if it is already laminated with a plastic laminate, it cannot be drymounted. Posters printed on the HP Plotter in the Glab are perfect for drymounting!

There are several vendors you can contact to have your poster laminated or drymounted.

Medical Illustration and Photography - located on campus at 180 Medical Wing D (click for map), between Kenan Stadium and Neurosciences Hospital near Student Health Services.
(919) 966-4232

• Can mount posters on Foamcore up to 40" x 60" or on Gatorfoam up to 32" x 40"
• Can laminate surface of mounted poster with UV protective finish
• Can add edging to mounted posters

FedExKinkos - located at 114 W. Franklin Street
(919) 967-0790

• Can print posters with one side measuring 36" maximum
• Can laminate posters with a plastic laminate up to 36" wide
• Can drymount posters up to 32" x 40"

The Print Shop - located in University Mall
(919) 942-7306

• Can drymount posters up to 48" x 96"

Hanging Posters in Sitterson
When your poster is ready to be hung on the wall, the Pubications & Publicity Manager will contact you to determine the best place for it--either in a lab near your particular research area, in one of the hallways on levels 1, 2, and 3, or in the lower lobby. As new posters are created, older posters may be be rotated to less-prominent locations. A Computer Services staff member will hang the poster on the wall. If the Publications & Publicity manager is unavailable and you need a poster to be hung, contact Computer Services (help@cs.unc.edu), specifying where you want the poster to be mounted and someone will get back in touch with you.