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Poster Project Formatting and Submission Form

Academic ITS offers poster printing services only for faculty and student research or course-based projects. For other projects, members of the community may contact an area designer or printer services.

 Submission Form

There are two poster template sizes available below. Please submit your poster in one of these sizes. The 48″x36″ template size is popular but note that the correct size for posters exhibited at the Colby Liberal Arts Symposium (CLAS) is 48″x42″.

A note about deadline of posters submission:

  • We encourage to submit posters at least 48 hour before the presentation.

A note for class projects:

  • If a faculty has poster projects for a course, please contact Qiuli Wang at [email protected] to set up deadlines for each class.
    This is to prevent conflicts among different courses and ensure everyone’s poster is printed well ahead of their presentation.

Poster Printing Guidelines:

  • The poster must be saved as a PowerPoint file (.ppt) or (.pdf)
  • Please do not make your poster with Google Slide and then download to PowerPoint. That approach will change the original poster size. You
    can export your poster to PDF from Good Slide.
  • To include an image on your poster, do NOT ‘copy and paste’. You must save the image to your computer, then use the ‘insert > picture’ option        to import it into
    Powerpoint.
  • Photographs, pictures, and figures should be of the highest possible resolution.
  • No more than 1/3 of the poster may have a non-white background to conserve toner and reduce printing time.
  • Keep fonts simple – remember that if you use a non-standard font that is not installed on the computer used for printing, your poster will lose
    both the font and its formatting in the printing process.
  • Use a font size that can be easily read from a distance.

When your poster is ready for printing, please submit it using the form found here. 

If you have difficulty submitting your poster with this form, please send it as an email attachment to [email protected]

Poster files that are too large for email can be uploaded to Google Drive and shared with [email protected]. When you share it, please indicate in the comment box whether your file was created on a PC or a Mac.

The poster will be printed in the Language Resource Center and you will receive a message to retrieve it from Lovejoy 404.