While working on the poster for our presentation next week, many of us took advantage of the downloadable templates that are available free online. Some of the links to these sites were provided by our professor, Dr. Joyce Pittman. (Thank you!)
The next step - after completing the template - was to figure out the best way to have these printed and ready for hanging next Wednesday.
I was leaning towards using Poster Presentations, one of the companies supplying free template downloads. I did speak to someone about the deadlines for submitting our files and was assured by a customer service rep that if my poster had not arrived (from California) by Tuesday afternoon, they would FedEx it out for delivery by 10:30 Wednesday morning, free of charge. Sounded good, but I don't want to be standing there with an empty board behind me next week, so I looked for other options.
D. Rahn, A. Edwards and a few others in our cohort told me about Drexel's printing services. I think they charge $3.00 a square foot, but they want a week's lead time, and I couldn't make that. Some people on campus may be able to get theirs done there with less time needed.
I finally started calling around and found that FedEx/Kinkos has a 24 hour turn-around time - perfect for the last minute person. They charge $7.25 a square foot, but that eliminates shipping costs I would have paid with Poster Presentations - and the charge for the poster itself was about the same amount.
So, Drexel is the most reasonably priced, but Kinko's is the most convenient for me.
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