Poster printing

Cost and lead time

Undergraduate students, department staff, and NIST PREP participants

Free for Physics and Engineering Physics majors presenting a research poster, for undergraduates of any major presenting research done with a Physics PI, and for any undergraduate student presenting at an event the department organizes or sponsors, such as the Undergraduate Research Expo. Poster printing is also provided free of charge to department staff and to NIST PREP participants.

Reprints are handled case by case and may not be approved, so proof your PDF before you submit.

Allow 2 business days for printing. You will be emailed once your poster has been printed and is ready to collect.

Graduate students, faculty, and research staff

Charged to a speedtype — Physics graduate students, faculty, postdocs, and research scientists. Your PI must be on the department's PI list, which is how the charge is routed for approval. The current rate is $40.00 per poster.

Reprints are charged as a new print and go back through PI approval, so proof your PDF before you submit.

Allow 2 business days after your PI approves for printing — how long that takes is up to your PI. Lab staff are not notified until your PI has approved. You can check what stage your poster request is at by visiting the poster requests page. You will be emailed once your poster has been printed and is ready to collect.

Designing your poster

Start from one of our templates or build your own to the size below.

• Poster templates — LaTeX, MARP, and PowerPoint, each producing a 47.48″ × 35.61″ landscape PDF
• Design guide — type sizes for print, keeping figures sharp, the CU palette, and the mistakes that cost a reprint

Building your own instead? Size it 47.48″ × 35.61″ landscape, or keep the shorter dimension at or under 35.61″ so it fits the roll without scaling.

Questions

Email physicslabs@colorado.edu about anything to do with poster printing.