Re: low cost large sized posters?

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Susan McLeod (s.mcleod@cvmuseum.com)
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:21:25 -0500



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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.



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