Who it’s for
The printing service for large format materials is available to UB teaching and research staff.
Service
The unit has a last generation HP Designjet Z5200 Postscript plotter, which can print on different materials: matte photographic paper, glossy photograhic paper or standard paper, with a maximum width of 105 cm.
Procedure
- Staff interested in printing posters should fill out the following form. Provide your contact information and CEGE and upload the files to be printed. Should you have any problems, questions or consultation of others forms of payment, e-mail udcrai@ub.edu.
- Payment will be made through Note of Charge. The Teaching Unit will prepare a budget that will be sent to the user by email and must be returned signed.
- The budget acceptance can be digitally signed. The order will be delivered to the Library CRAI at the center where the staff member making the request works. Once the work has been collected, the Administration Unit will make the Note of Charge and post it in the SAP.
Opening hours
Opening hours are from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Printed material will be delivered 24-48 working hours after reception of the file.
Requirements
- Accepted file types are PDF (recommended), JPG and TIFF.
- The recommended resolution is 300 dpi. Files will not be accepted if the resolution is below 150 dpi.
- The output size will be that of the received file. If you have created the file in A4, it cannot be printed in a larger format.
- Files should be prepared in CMYK colour mode, to avoid a difference in colour between the computer screen and the print, as far as possible. This difference depends on various factors, including the material on which the design will be printed. Files prepared using RGB will be converted automatically to a standard CMYK colour profile.
- In terms of fonts (types of letter), text should be converted to outlines so that the fonts are printed correctly. If text cannot be converted to outlines or saved in the file, please go to the Unit to check that the text is displayed correctly on our equipment.
Recommendations
- An indentation of at least 1mm on each side is recommended, although it is safer to leave a margin of 3 mm per side.
- You should use a vector graphics editor, such as CorelDraw and/or Adobe Illustrator, to create a poster, and a program such as GIMP and/or Photoshop to process images (raster). Use Adobe Acrobat and/or PDFCreator to create PDF files.
Fees
Consult CRAI fees.