Poster Printing

We offer high quality, mediated, poster printing to all University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff.

Cost: $8.40/linear foot (36" glossy paper)

Ex. 3ftX4ft poster is 4 linear feet cost is $34. Pricing is rounded up to the nearest half foot.

Students: Printing costs are not included in your standard computing services. The poster printing charged will be billed to the student.

Library Staff: A general shortcode has been set up, you do not need to know the code to print. If you joined the library after 9/1/2011, please contact lasutch@umich.edu to be added to the account.

Faculty/Nonlibrary Staff: You must associate a shortcode with poster printing by visiting http://www.itcs.umich.edu/accounts/forms/top-level-abs.php (note this takes 48 hours to process). You only need to do this one time. If you visit http://mprint.umich.edu/usage and see Poster in the list, your account is set up and you don't need an appointment.

If you are paying by shortcode, but don't have time to set up the account online, you may print same day at Groundworks on North Campus.

We no longer accept cash, checks, or credit cards. You may use those to pay at Groundworks ($14/linear foot), Kolossos, Kinko's or some other print shop.

Creating Your Poster

We strongly encourage you to use Adobe Illustrator (.AI) to create your poster. We also accept PowerPoint, PDF, and Photoshop documents. The Duderstadt Center provides templates for Adobe Illustrator available here.

You may take a free workshop on "Creating Professional-looking Conference Posters" at the Faculty Exploratory in the Graduate Library or the Duderstadt Center on North Campus.

Printing Process

Poster printing is available on a first come first serve basis when we are open. During breaks poster printing is available by appointment (tech-deck@umich.edu). We do not take poster printing appointments during TechDeck hours.

You are responsible for proof-reading the content of your poster. When you come to print we will send the file to the printer and give you and opportunity to look it over before printing. The printing process may take 15 minutes or longer depending on file and poster size. This excludes any file changes/corrections that may be necessary prior to printing. Please allow for extra time.