= 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 [[ http://www.rolanddga.com/products/printcut/bn/ | VersaStudio BN-20 ]]
   . CMYK 1440dpi, 20 inch wide, USB2 
   . [[ http://support.rolanddga.com/docs/Documents/departments/Technical%20Services/Manuals%20and%20Guides/BN-20_USE_EN_R2.pdf | 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?

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Making posters:
 * GIMP - really hard to edit afterwards
 * Scribus -> PDF -> bitmap, maybe?
 * LyX / Latex / [[ http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php | beamerposter ]] - PDF
  * /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer, then texhash
  * [[ http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ERT | ERT ]] evil red text 
  * With RHEL5, and qt 4.2.1.1, I can't upgrade beyond LyX 1.5.6
 * convert -geometry 8100x5400 -density 1200x1200 -quality 100 trimet*pdf tri.png ( 8 minutes, 54MB, looks great )
 * kpsepath, kpsewhich, ??? 
 * [[http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm]]
 * LyX really isn't designed for posters, and to make it so involves configuration stuff that is way beyond my skillset
 * I can write this in tex using sciposter

 * convert -geometry 12000x18000 -density 600x600 -quality 100 kltest2.pdf kltest2.png

||  6000x9000  || 300x300 ||   1m00s ||
|| 12000x18000 || 300x300 || 162m03s ||
|| 12000x18000 || 600x600 ||   5m04s ||


 * convert -geometry 12000x18000 -density 600x600 -quality 100 sstest0.pdf sstest0.png
 * convert -crop 3000x2400 kltest300*.png tileb.png