In anticipation of the Academy and ARVO poster rushes each year, the Media Center has formulated guidelines to assist individuals in preparing materials for submission to the Media Center. To insure faster turnaround time for your poster, please be sure to get your materials into the Media Center as early as possible since posters will be worked on in the order they are received. Submission deadlines are posted several weeks ahead of time.

All posters are created in Quark Express for Macintosh, therefore, please be sure to save the following components of your poster as follows:

A hardcopy of all poster text is required along with any additional supporting material.

Text: The preferred format for text is MS Word (note* not the same as Wordperfect). If your computer does not have Word, please be sure to save it as a text only file. (.txt) To insure an eye-catching poster, please try to keep your text to a minimum and be sure to add a lot of graphics and charts!

Photos or images of any kind should be saved as an EPS (.eps) file which is preferable since it guarantees a more accurate printout of your image. If you cannot save your image as an EPS, you can save it as either a TIF or JPEG file. (.tif, .jpg) Please keep in mind that images should be scanned at a minimum of 300 DPI in order to insure the best possible quality.

You may also provide the Media Center with slides or flat art work which we will scan for you.

Tables and Charts should be created in Powerpoint manually without using the autochart feature (since this causes problems) and then saved as a JPEG (.jpg) Charts created in Excel or MS Word have to be re-configured by the Media Center.

Colors: Posters are printed out in full color, 300 dpi at 40"x60". If you have additional poster material that you would prefer to have tacked onto the poster, please let the staff know ahead of time and we will be sure to include open space for your work.