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Posters

Beaverton poster printers

  • Bear Printing Tigard - no posters, largest 13x19
  • $36, Cedar House Media Beaverton
    • Cory recalls: $3/sf, 18 inch wide any length 600 dpi
    • Roland VersaStudio BN-20

      • CMYK 1440dpi, 20 inch wide, USB2
      • manual

      • Probably waterproof, prints on vinyl to make stickers with cuttable boundaries
      • Printer firmware is Linux(!), Windows drivers only for the host
  • $36, Costco
    • 20x30 $8.99 ($2.16/sf) 6060x9090 with edge bleed (300 dpi)
    • my membership has elapsed, it costs $55 to renew
  • $87, Kinkos Beaverton - $7.25/sf, 60 inch wide any length, "200dpi", 3 days
    • Coated paper, may smear when wet?
    • HP Z6100 1200 dpi inkjet 8 color(!)
    • HP-RTL, HP-GL/2, CALS G4, TIFF and JPEG files
    • Waterproof with the right media, but does Kinkos stock it?


Making posters:

  • GIMP - really hard to edit afterwards
  • Scribus -> PDF -> bitmap, maybe?

  • LyX / Latex / beamerposter - PDF

    • /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer, then texhash
    • ERT evil red text

  • convert -geometry 8100x5400 -density 1200x1200 -quality 100 trimet*pdf tri.png ( 8 minutes, 54MB, looks great )
  • kpsepath, kpsewhich ???

Posters (last edited 2013-02-08 00:33:42 by KeithLofstrom)