Poster Printing

How to print a poster on the Agronomy and Soils Departmental HP Designjet Z3100 Photo Plotter.

 
 

Whether you have a high quality art print or a highly technical poster for a technical conference preparing the document in concert with the printer is critical.  Agronomy and Soils Department has purchased a high end photo printer that is capable of producing professional grade products.  It will not be the printer’s fault if your poster is ugly.


This web site will step you through the four phases of printing a poster on the HP Z3100.  Phase I is done only once for any computer that has access to the Z3100.  The other three phases will be performed for each poster.


Select a phase to begin.

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Select the proper paper

-- Heavy weight coated for Students

-- Premium Photo Gloss for Faculty



Load the paper



Have someone else proof read your poster



Determine the poster orientation



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Print from your computer

Make sure of our page setup.


Printer Properties

Select the Z3100

Assign paper size and type

Assign orientation

Assign trimming


Using sharp instruments

Trim to fit

 
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Install the Z3100 driver

for PCs running XP Professional with SP2


for PCs running XP-64


for Macintosh with Mac OSX


Install the Printer Utility

PCs only.


Macs don’t need it.



Who has the drivers?

see Lee.  She is the Z3100 Gatekeeper.


When should the drivers be loaded?

Now is a good time...




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Build the poster

Define the poster size


Choose your weapons...

PCs -- PowerPoint, Publisher, Adobe


Macs -- Pages, PowerPoint, Adobe


Define your message

Outline

Bullets

Graphics

Photos


Proofread

Do it again

Do it again


 

Plan Ahead before you Print