Poster Printing

Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center offers poster printing service for faculty members who represent Texas Tech University at professional conferences. Posters should be presented for printing in electronic format as large Microsoft PowerPoint slides. For more information on poster printing, please refer to poster printing tutorial and instructions below or call Ching Lee at 806-742-0133. TLTC also offers a one-hour custom course on poster design. Please contact Ching Lee to schedule the course.

Poster Printing Guidelines

The TLTC prints one poster free of charge for each tenure-track faculty member per fiscal year when they are presenting their research at a regional or national conference as a representative of Texas Tech University.
The poster must include the faculty member's name listed as an author or co-author.
Allow two business days to process your request.
A printing request including conference name, dates and location must be sent by the faculty member by email to .
Posters must be submitted in electronic format either by email to or delivered in person on a CD or flash drive.
Due to high cost of production, only one print will be made for each professor per fiscal year.
Due to accounting changes, the TLTC will no longer be able to print posters for payment.
Posters should be produced as one large slide using Microsoft PowerPoint. We cannot accept posters saved as any other file type.
Maximum print area is 40" x 56". Available poster sizes are 40" x up to 56", 34" x up to 56", and 22" x up to 56".
The TLTC is not responsible for typographic errors or corrections needing to be made after the poster is submitted for printing.
The TLTC does not provide laminating or mounting services nor do we provide shipping tubes for transportation.
We strongly encourage you to follow the TTU Identity Guidelines. Below, we have provided two TTU Identity Guidelines-compliant PowerPoint templates in two sizes for your use.

Helpful Design Tips

Fonts:

Arial or Times New Roman are the recommended fonts for readability and compliance with the TTU Identity Guidelines
72 point or larger for poster titles
36-54 point for section titles
24-30 point for body text (at least 20 point is recommended)
Font sizes may vary depending on the viewing distance and amount of text to be included.

Zoom:

Zoom to "Fit" to see all of your poster
Zoom to 100% to see the actual printed size. Move back about 3 feet (or the anticipated viewing distance) and see if it is readable.
Zoom to 50% to make editing easier.

Graphics:

Avoid using small graphics downloaded from the web. They typically have very low resolution and are not scalable for poster printing.
Scan images at high resolution and reduce it later if necessary.
Be sure photos have good contrast and brightness for printing. Test on your home color printer to verify.

Background:

Avoid using busy patterns or images as the background, because they make text difficult to read.
TTU Identity Guidelines:
- prohibit the use of TTU logos as backgrounds
- the Double T may be placed in the footer of the poster
- the academic shield should be placed in the title banner or header.
Plain backgrounds with contrasting text will make your text easier to read.
Avoid using heavy solid color backgrounds because extensive ink saturation will give your paper a wavy appearance.