Message-ID: <009701c8cb50$b3c1bda0$4001a8c0@HP50151119617> From: "Susan McLeod" <s.mcleod@cvmuseum.com> Subject: Re: low cost large sized posters? Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:21:25 -0500
Hi, Russell,
Do you mean posters or wall panels (large mounted photographs, perhaps
with text and graphics, like CVM's Paths of the People exhibit)? If you
can clarify what you're trying to do, I can probably give you several
sources. It will help if you tell me how you are able to prepare the
source material. Is it a computer file? Original art?
Susan McLeod
Chippewa Valley Museum
----- Original Message -----
From: Russell Hanson
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: low cost large sized posters?
I had several suggestions and tried a few. www.sircooper.com is an
email print shop that has good service and decent prices on posters with
some options. I tried 3 there and they were satisfactory, except the
mounted one was a little dented by UPS in shipping.
Another suggestion was Sams Club. I went to the nearest one to me,
Twin Cities, and they have kiosks to print posters up to 24x36 and
several smaller sizes. The price is low and quality good. The
difficulty there was the kiosk software cropped my pictures that weren't
in the exact ratio of 24x36 or other size they allowed so it chopped off
the surplus poster. No ability to override the cropping--so you have to
make sure your poster is exactly the right ratio. It was a rather
"stupid" cropping program that wouldn't allow me to leave a little white
space on one dimension so the other would all fit --it insisted in
cropping off part of my poster to make the other dimension fit!
I think my strategy will be:
-- create poster in Printshop setting the 2x3 foot ratio as
the picture dimension
-- printing at Sam's ($14.00 approx) or SirCooper --same price
plus postage $10 (over $100 free)
-- framing with $10 Walmart poster frame
-- spending $75 for a tank of gas to get to Sams ;-)
Thanks for all the ideas! I think if you have suggestions you should
reply to the whole group rather than send them just to me. I am sure it
would help others too. I am including the replies in this one (I think!)
Russ H
The new book "History of Cushing, WI Vol 1" is for sale through SELHS
BOX 731, Cushing WI 54006 for $15 plus $2 postage. 208 8.5x11 pages, 250
pictures, professionally printed and bound paperback. Sterling Eureka
and Laketown Historical Society--Sub Chapter of Polk Co Historical
Society--The Western most tip of Wisconsin.
On 5/28/08, Russell Hanson <riverroadrambler@gmail.com> wrote:
We are preparing some wall posters for our museum and are interested
in how to do it inexpensively. We need to design, print, mount, and
display them. I think about 24x36 would be OK for the size for most of
them.
Any suggestions? Have you done it yourself? We had an estimate
of $300 per poster (I think those may have been 3x4 feet) to take our
pictures and text and create the mounted poster. I tried creating some
posters with Printshop, printing them in some smaller pieces, assembling
and spray gluing them to masonite (cost of about $10 per poster), but
they look pieced together and sort of less than professional!
The local printshop wants $75 just for a single piece poster
print from our print ready file--seems pretty steep! Then we would have
to mount them ourselves and hang them.
Thanks
Russ Hanson Luck Area Historical Society-- Polk Co WI.
The brand new Luck Area Historical Museum and Library will have the
building completed by mid July of this year.