Research Posters with an iPad Spot

Posted on February 14, 2012 by
ipad video on a research poster

Space for an Ipad

When we fist looked at this research poster, we thought the author had forgotten a paragraph or inadvertently deleted it. Wrong!

What she was actually doing was leaving a space for them to put an iPad®. They wanted to be able to show a video clip as part of the poster presentation.

Very cool! We think that’s pretty creative, and it’s the first time we’ve seen it done. Certainly not the last.

Naturally, we called to be sure this is what they wanted, since it rings alarm bells around here when we see a blank spot in the poster. Part of our service is to take a look and be sure your research poster looks OK.

If you are leaving a spot for an iPad in your research poster, let us know that you have intentionally left an empty spot by telling us in the special instructions when you order. It will save us both a phone call. We would also suggest that you order a laminated poster, which has more strength and stiffness for supporting the weight of an iPad.

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Posters from PDF’s

Posted on February 13, 2012 by
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Poster from PowerPoint

So, you are ready to send your poster to be printed and they tell you to send them a pdf. Here’s what they are really saying- “Send me a file that is locked in stone, and anything that it wrong with it is your problem.” Which is true.

At postersession.com we have a different approach. We want the PowerPoint file so we can make a change if there’s a problem. We’ll put a nice crisp logo of your institution in place of the one you copied off the ‘net. We’ll fix type that runs off the page or into the next paragraph.  We’ll change text to white from black when it’s against a dark background so it’s more easily read. All kinds of little tweaks that help.

All in all, we make some change to about 80% of the posters that come to us. We think that gives you a more professional poster, and a better presentation of your research. We know that you are not a graphic designer, you’re a scientist. We are graphic designers, and we give you the benefit of what we know to make your poster better.

Not to mention that PowerPoint 2003 and before don’t make good pdf’s.

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Foldable Fabric Research Posters-Accept No Substitutes!

Posted on January 11, 2012 by
cloth research posters
Foldable Fabric Poster

We’ve been selling our foldable fabric research posters for over two years now, and we are finding great acceptance of them. Something like a third of all we make are now made of our foldble fabric.

We went through a lot of work to identify and qualify a foldable fabric that would print accurately, not take a crease, and that would work properly with our printers. It was a pretty extensive project, and we evaluated a dozen materials and tested four or five. The foldable fabric we use was the best we found.
We also know that we are the only people who are using that particular material for foldable fabric posters. So somebody who tells you that they have the same stuff? They don’t!  They are using one of the products we rejected.
There’s a lot more to making a great poster than buying a roll of stuff and putting it on your machine. That’s why we are the best in this business!


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Research Poster Carrying Tube

Posted on January 4, 2012 by
Carrying tube for scientific poster

Standard Poster Tube

Before you jump on the plane, a little planning is required to be sure your research poster arrives with you, and in good condition. Suffice it to say that you can’t just roll your research poster up and put a rubber band around it, and expect it to be nice and fresh for your poster session.

We sell a telescoping plastic carrying tube that will protect your poster during your travel, and for $25 it’s a good investment. You’ll be able to use it many times.

Our prejudice is never to check your research poster with your luggage- too many bad things can happen! You want to carry it on the plane.  Of course, it raises the eyebrows of the security people, looking like a bazooka as it does. But, they see them all the time and are pretty used to them.

The other issue is that the tube counts as a piece of carry-on luggage. We’ve heard so many stories of people having to pay for an extra piece of checked luggage that we often suggest that they try our foldable fabric posters, which can go into your briefcase or carry-on.
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How to really screw up a Research Poster

Posted on December 1, 2011 by
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Not So Good Poster

Do it right and your research poster speaks well of you and the research you have done. Do it badly, and it’s like having a stain on your tie. Here’s some things to avoid:

1. Print a bunch of 8-1/2 x 11 sheets and tack them to a board like the poster at the right. This went out 10 years ago and tells people you didn’t consider it important enough to present a professional poster.
2. Cram a ton of small type on the poster. Who’s going to read all that stuff, if they can read it at all?
3. Using very low resolution pictures. Look at your poster at 100%. If you see big squares of color, your poster will look like that too.
4. Put black type in a blue or other dark colored box- it will be hard to read.
5. Try to be artsy by putting a picture in the background. It will be hard to see what it is anyway, and it makes your poster too busy.
6. Put shadows on the text. Especially on smaller text, it will be very hard to read.
7. Go from Mac to PC, back and forth. PowerPoint does not transfer very faithfully between platforms, especially if you use a type font like Monaco that’s only on the Mac. Things will move around!
8. Crowd the edges. Good graphic design says you should leave space around things.
9. Make it too small or too big. Posters should be 3×4 feet at least, but no so big that they hang off the edge of the board.
10. Copy your institution’s logo off the Internet- it will be low resolution and look terrible.
That’s my quick list, but people invent new ways to mess up every day! You can always call us for a quick consult about your research poster and we’ll help you get it right



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Printing QR Codes on Your Poster

Posted on November 22, 2011 by
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Sign with a QR Code

It’s a good thing we checked! Our customer asked us to print a number of these posters for retail stores, and Ken in our shop grabbed his smart phone to be sure it would read the QR code. It didn’t! It turns our that QR codes need to be of a certain size, depending on the length of the URL they are pointing to. Who knew?

Here’s a web site that talks about the size of QR codes when they are printed.
Whats going on is that as the web address gets longer, the QR code needs to store more information. A short web address will only need a QR code with 25×25 boxes, but a long web address can get up to 57×57 or even more.
Your smart phone needs to see each dot at about .4mm on the screen to be able to read it.  That means a short web addres (a 25×25) will be about 1 cm (3/8″) across on your phone. If you have a 57×57 QR code, it will need to be nearly an inch across. If it’s not big enough, your phone chokes on it.
For poster printing, figure the typical reading distance to be 10 times the width of the QR code. For instance, 4″ across if people will read it from a distance of three feet, which would be typical for a research poster. The code also needs to be clear enough at print size that each pixel of the code is readable. We increased the size of the QR code on this poster, and it worked fine.
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Fabric posters make travel easy

Posted on October 20, 2011 by
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Goes in your carry on!

Air travel these days is bad enough without having to:

1. Check your luggage and wait for it when you land and
2. Pay an extra $25 or more for the priviledge!
So we offer scientific posters printed on a foldable fabric that you can put into your carry on luggage. It saves you time and money, and the poster doesn’t count as another carry on item. And, of course, you aren’t going through security with a poster tube that looks suspiciously like a bazooka!
Our fabric scientific posters look great- they accept inks just like paper does, and give great results even on hard to print things like flourescent stains and X-rays.
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