Vertical Poster Templates for Free

Posted on September 28, 2011 by
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Vertical Poster Template 36×60

I had a conversation with a customer yesterday, and we were quite a way into our talk when it came out that he was going to Europe to present his research poster.  Most scientific poster sessions in Europe use a vertical poster template, and he had set his up to be horizontal (landscape orientation).  It would be a real mess to go all that way and find your research poster didn’t fit on the board!

So the next time you land a trip to the old country to present a scientific poster, be sure you download the free powerpoint template with a vertical orientation. Careful about sizes too-they are metric over there, and will give you poster dimensions that way. We have free metric templates as well on our web site. Very often you can copy and paste information from your existing poster into a metric template with a minimum of fuss.
We also have a large library of special size free research poster templates that we have done over the years, and we are happy to send you one if you need it. We’ll even design a poster template in a special size for you!
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Research Poster Printing

Posted on September 26, 2011 by
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Poster Printed by Postersession.com

There’s some fuzzy math going on out there, so I thought I’d set people straight. Somehow they think it’s less expensive to print a poster themselves than to buy it from a company that specializes in the printing of research posters.

People think: I can buy a poster printing machine for $10,000, and then the paper and ink for a 3×5′ research poster will only cost me about $15, where buying the poster costs $75.
I only wish I made $60 on every $75 scientific poster I sold! Here are the things they forget to consider:
1. Somebody has to spend their time printing the poster. They need to be trained and managed. They get medical, vacation and other benefits. What’s your fully costed rate if it takes a half hour?
2. They need to dedicate space to the printer, the cutting table, the tools, etc.
3. Someone who has printed posters for years can help your poster be better, both by seeing problems and by fixing them. There’s a lot to be said for having an expert looking it over.
4. You need to buy inventory and make sure it’s being replenished.
5. Are you going to qualify materials so you’re sure to get a nice, bright print? How about learning the different setting on your print driver that give you the best color, and often need to be changed when doing things like X-rays?
6. Print 100 research posters a year on that machine, and over a 5 year life that’s $20 per poster. Oh, did I mention that the service contract on the poster printer is $2500 a year? Add another $25 a poster.
We pay for people, equipment and space, and so does anybody else. At the end of the day, we probably make $10 on a poster, and we earn it!
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Custom Poster Templates in PowerPoint

Posted on September 22, 2011 by
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Custom Poster Template

Over the last several months, we’ve generated scientific poster templates for a number of our customers. It seems that hospitals, especially, want to put their brand identity into the scientific posters they produce. We help by generating a scientific poster PowerPoint template using their logo and brand identity look.

If your corporate marketing types want to extend their brand identities to your scientific posters, give us a call. It is usually not terribly difficult to put together a free poster template that you can then use to design your scientific posters. We’ll make sure the colors are rendering properly and that you’ve got a nice crisp logo. We can talk to your marketing folks and make it happen pretty easily, and we don’t charge for it.
From then on, you can drop your text, charts and graphs, and photos into the custom design poster template and send the file to us for printing. You can be assured that your scientific poster will be printed properly and beautifully. The poster at the right is one done from a PowerPoint poster template, and it looks fantastic!
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Metric and Special Size Free Poster Templates

Posted on September 16, 2011 by
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Free Poster Templates

When it comes to making a scientific poster in a special size, we can help! Our website posts scientific poster templates in PowerPoint file format in the common sizes we see, including metric size and portait oriented templates that are common in European poster sessions.

If you can’t find your wanted poster template size, give us a call. We’ve created templates in many special sizes over the years, such as an a0 poster template size, and we can generate one for you if we don’t have it already.
Also on our website are scientific poster examples that our customers have sent us, just to give you an idea of what people have done. Remember that you are welcome to change anything you want on the poster template, we simply provide them as a starting point for your design. Change the backgound, use different headings, we are fine with it!
If you need some advice about how to design a scientific poster, there are lots of tips right on the poster, as well as in the FAQ section of our website. If you get stuck, feel free to call us, our phone support is always free!
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In Stock Foldable Fabric

Posted on August 11, 2011 by
Research posters printed on foldable fabric
Foldable Fabric poster goes in a box

Last spring there was a shortage of the fabric for printing our foldable posters. We hate being out of anything, so we worked with our vendor to locate and qualify another supplier. We were successful in doing that, and we never ran out of the material for making your foldable fabric posters. Other people ran out.

We’ve just learned that the original supplier is no longer going to offer the material at all, so we are going full steam ahead with the replacement product. We actually like it better, since it can be trimmed more smoothly.
Rest assured that if the other guys don’t have foldable fabric for the busy fall poster season, we will!
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How Far We’ve Come…

Posted on August 3, 2011 by
Research Poster the old way
Why we do what we do

We get so used to the beautiful single piece posters that we print all day that we forget what people used to do. So when I saw this poster at a postersession recently, I had to take a picture of it to remind me of how far we’ve come in the last 10 years.

Do you remember when a poster was page size chunks of text, an odd photo, and had hand drawn charts and graphs? It wasn’t that long ago.
Can anyone argue that we aren’t doing a better job these days? I would think that it took this student hours to produce all those pieces, and almost as long to get them all arranged on the board. Worst still, it looks like, well, like a kid did it.
Budgets rear their ugly head, of course. It just seems hard to argue that it wouldn’t have been worth $75 to make this presentation more professional. And, the more you value your time, the easier that decision is to make.
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New Matte Laminate for Research Posters

Posted on June 12, 2011 by
Matte laminate for posters
New and Old Matte Laminate

We have recently changed the matte laminate that we use for our research posters, and the new material is a truly better product!

Our old matte laminate was good for cutting glare, but it reduced the contrast in photos. That was the trade-off we always thought we had to make when going from gloss laminate to matte.
 
No longer! Our new matte laminate cuts glare better, and keeps the brilliance of colors. It’s a totally new technology in poster laminates, and we believe the innovation is a wonderful one. The photo shows the difference between the two laminates, the new material is on the left.
 
Best of all, the pricing is the same! That’s right, you get the better product at the same price.
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