In article <632tuv$sob at gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>,
ktimms at postmaster@imgen.bcm.tmc.edu says...
>>I use yet another technique. I print out the poster in sections on standard
>letter or legal size paper and then pop down to Kinkos and get them
>laminated. If you like the colored edging you can use colored paper behind
>the paper with your poster on. This is relatively inexpensive and the poster
>in pretty much indestructable - a great thing when some enthuisiastic
>colleague gesticulates wildly and liberally coats your poster in red wine
>(happened to a friend at one meeting - his poster was laminated so it just
>wiped off).
Having just got back from the Neuroscience meeting, I have seen a _lot_
of posters in the past few days. And I would like to counsel against
lamination; the one poster I checked out that was laminated was nearly
impossible to read because of the glare from the room lights.
Another thing that detracts from a poster is using patterned paper
for the background edging. I saw a few posters with contrasty
marbled poster boards and it was very distracting.
- Hannah
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Hannah Dvorak-Carbone
Division of Biology 216-76
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
