University of Michigan-Flint

For UM-Flint faculty, staff, or students presenting at conferences, poster printing is free of charge. For non-conference related poster printing, you must contact University Printing Services. They currently charge between $6-12 per square foot.

Our format printer can produce prints that are up to 42 x 56 inches; or roughly 3.5 x 4.5 feet. Our laminator, however, can only laminate prints less than 38 inches across.

PowerPoint is the most ideal program to use, though Adobe products (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.) can be used as well.

Though a poster can be printed in hours, files should be submitted for print at least 2 - 3 business days BEFORE the print is needed.

Start the poster printing process by doing the following:

1. Contact Andre Louis at alouis@umflint.edu to discuss your poster printing needs. Sample prints are available for viewing both ONLINE and in the Office of Research.
2. Prepare your poster in PowerPoint. As you a preparing your poster, keep in mind that our plotter paper is 42 inches wide (with an actual printable area of 41.5 inches). Size your print accordingly.
3. Submit your file to Andre Louis by email or by bringing an electronic version of it to the Office of Research (USB flash drive or CD). Files should be submitted for print no less than two days before the print is needed.
4. We can do print jobs between 9 am and 4 pm, Monday through Friday. No new print jobs will be accepted after 4pm.
5. Your poster MUST be proof-read and in final form before it is sent. Correcting mistakes and making alterations after a print is not only wasteful, but also time consuming.

Though we can create and design posters, we encourage the researcher to design their own posters. That way, they maintain the "ownership" of their work (images, fonts, colors, content, etc.). For assistance, templates are available for download below. Each poster is 36 x 48 inches (3 x 4 ft.) by you can resize them as you see fit, by going to "Page Setup" under the DESIGN tab in PowerPoint. Also, guidelines for how to create a research poster from scratch can be downloaded by clicking here.