MD & DO How to print a poster for a presentation????

[xALIAx]

I have to print a poster for a presentation I am giving but have no idea about dimensions or printing options. Can I do this at a store?

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[Osteosaur]

The conference should have poster dimensions specified.

If your mentor has never done this before (this is very weird for any kind of researcher to have no experience here), your school library/media department should be able to handle it. I'd use a print shop as a last resort.

 

[mrbreakfast]

1) Dimensions should be approximately specified by the conference but otherwise, 4'x3' is pretty inexpensive. If this is covered by someone else, go bigger!

2) Many conferences have a poster printing service, which will give you your poster when you arrive (saving the headache of carrying it around). Otherwise, your med school may have a poster printer, but if there's an undergraduate university affiliated with it, they absolutely will.

 

[xALIAx]

The conference should have poster dimensions specified.

If your mentor has never done this before (this is very weird for any kind of researcher to have no experience here), your school library/media department should be able to handle it. I'd use a print shop as a last resort.

my mentor does know how, but i told her i knew what i was doing and now im a few days out from the poster submission deadline

1) Dimensions should be approximately specified by the conference but otherwise, 4'x3' is pretty inexpensive. If this is covered by someone else, go bigger!

2) Many conferences have a poster printing service, which will give you your poster when you arrive (saving the headache of carrying it around). Otherwise, your med school may have a poster printer, but if there's an undergraduate university affiliated with it, they absolutely will.

i missed the printing deadline. thanks a lot for your advice though

 

[Zifish]

Depending on the dimensions, a FedEx/Kinkos store should have a poster printer that can print a 48x36 poster right away if you have the poster saved as a pdf. If you had more time and were planning on presenting it at multiple conferences, you may look into printing it on fabric (I used spoonflower and it was less than $30 on wrinkle free fabric”. Also to piggyback on what the person above said, most colleges have a poster printer, I know mine had one in the psychology department and you can just ask to print it. But if you’re traveling for the conference and you didn’t wanna bring a poster on the trip, then kinkos would be a good choice

 

[mvenus929]

my mentor does know how, but i told her i knew what i was doing and now im a few days out from the poster submission deadline



i missed the printing deadline. thanks a lot for your advice though

Do you know what you're doing?

Most colleges or medical schools have a printing service, and can turn around posters in less than a week (within 1-2 days if you rush it). I always go through my coordinators/admin to do it, so I don't know the specific process, but you'll need your poster in PDF form, and then what dimensions you want. 48x36 is pretty standard, but depending on the dimensions of your template, you may need to adjust it. My most recent poster is 63x36.

 

[Pantsareamyth]

Btw if you don’t have your demensions set in the application (ie PowerPoint) when you’re making the poster then when you print the poster most of the images on there will look like you used a potato to capture them due to to upscaling. Vector graphics are your friend.

 

[NickNaylor]

As mentioned above, many large educational institutions offer their own internal printing service. Failing that, something like Kinko's can likely get a poster printed very quickly (<24 hours).

 

[evilbooyaa]

I always get my posters printed where the meeting is going to be. Given that I'm frequently going out of town for meetings, I use fedex printing services to pick it up in that city so I don't have to fly with it.

If the poster session is local and the poster printing service on campus is past deadline, then look into fedex printing services.

Check the page set up on your powerpoint slide first, as it should match whatever poster size you are printing on. The conference should list what is an acceptable (or maximum) poster size.

 

[UnicornOpt]

I heard on NPR radio a commercial for poster printing services for healthcare/research presentations. I thought that was pretty specific but I guess there is a demand for it!

posterpresentations.com

 

[NotAProgDirector]

my mentor does know how, but i told her i knew what i was doing and now im a few days out from the poster submission deadline



i missed the printing deadline. thanks a lot for your advice though

You may be confusing two issues.

When you submit a poster to a meeting for consideration, you just submit the content, usually online. You don't actually send them a poster.

Once your poster is accepted, then you print it to bring to the meeting (or have it printed at the meeting and pick it up there).