The national AAPA meetings are in Chicago this week, which means that I and my fellow labmates have been busy the last couple of weeks getting our poster presentations ready (except for the one who shares my office and had her poster ready a month in advance, making the rest of us look like slackers). She had hers printed locally at the FedEx Office downtown, and with a 15% student discount paid ~$85.
I really didn’t want to pay that much to print my poster, or go through the hassle of dealing with printing issues at the local shop. The last time I had a poster printed I was at the copy center for hours while they tried to convince their printer to be nice and print the poster. Nerve wracking. While searching for poster templates online, I ran across PhD Posters. They have a few on-campus locations on the East Coast, but they can also FedEx your poster (overnight if need be, though that ups the shipping cost considerably). You just save your poster as a pdf and upload it to their site, make your payment through PayPal, and then wait for it to arrive. Best of all, printing rates for a 4′x4′ poster start at $39.99! With expedited 2 day shipping, I paid $10 less than my office mate. If I’d had the poster ready a week earlier, shipping would have been less than $7.
The poster arrived yesterday (a day ahead of schedule), and it looks fantastic. For those not yet living the postdoc high life, and paying conference costs out-of-pocket, PhDPosters is definitely the way to go.
Tags: conference, Grad School, printing, scientific poster
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