Creating a Poster The Dept. of Geology & Geophysics owns an HP 755CM Large-Format plotter that can be used to create posters for national meetings or for display within the department. Posters can include text, scanned images, plots, diagrams, etc. When working from a Macintosh computer, Adobe Illustrator has the fewest problems when sending the finished poster file to the plotter. Other programs such as Canvas can be used, but can create problems and poor results. This documentation will give instructions for using Adobe Illustrator. Large image files can exceed the print spool capacity on the HP 755 plotter. Therefore, scanned images and the final poster should be set to a resolution of less than 300 dpi. Generally the visual quality of the poster will not imporve much from 200 dpi to 300 dpi, but the plotter is less likely to crash for the lower resolution poster. See the Scanning Resolution Help Desk File for more information. Related Help Desk files Using the HP 755CM Large-Format Plotter from a Macintosh Scanning Resolution Scanning with the Apple Color OneScanner Scanning Slides with the Polaroid SprintScan35 Slide Scanner Printing Policies Selecting a Printer on a Macintosh Installing a Printer in Windows to your GGCS Account Monitoring and Deleting Jobs from the Print Queue on a Macintosh Outline Create your poster document in Adobe Illustrator. Ask Technical Support (ESB 1036) to start the print queue for the HP 755CM (Graupel) Select Graupel as the default printer (See Help Desk File Selecting a Printer on a Macintosh). Open Print Monitor Window (See Help Desk File Canceling & Monitoring Jobs in the Print Queue). Send the poster document to the plotter (See Help Desk File Using the HP 755 CM Large Format Plotter). When poster is printed, enter the tyoe and amount of paper used on the sheets near the plotter.
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