Poster Printing
Poster Printing in the E&MS Building
Brecky Morris 4/25/2022
- Poster printing is available to personnel and students who belong to the Earth & Planetary Sciences and the Ocean Sciences Departments.
- Save your poster in pdf format.
- Posters are $4.00 per linear foot and are <=42 inches in width.
- Check to ensure that you have a poster printing account. This is a separate account from the UCSC account.
- Ask the PI (or yourself) if they have a poster printing account.
- If 'yes', then note the username and password. If 'no', then request one by emailing. epstech@ucsc.edu, science-it@ucsc.edu, and the PI.
- Allow time for someone to set up your account and send you the password.
- Ask the PI (or yourself) if they have a poster printing account.
- Log into the Mac in the Vislab (C303) as "ES User'. There isn't a password.
- Log into the 'PaperCut' application. There should be a small window in the upper-right portion of the screen and a login prompt should appear upon logging into the computer. Use the poster printer account referred to in step 4.
- If application isn't already open, click on the program 'PC Client' in the Application Dock at the bottom of the screen.
- Log into the Adobe Creative Cloud icon by clicking on the menu bar in the top right-hand side of the screen - use your UCSC email and gold password. The icon looks vaguely like an infinity sign.
- Click 'Continue with Google'.
- Login to your UCSC account.
- Open Adobe Acrobat DC from the Application Dock and load your poster into Acrobat.
- Select 'Properties' from the 'File' menu.
- Note the size of your poster in inches. You'll use the info later to determine the paper size.
- Click 'ok'.
- Select 'Print' from the 'File' menu.
- Select 'epsposter.pmc.ucsc.edu' from the 'Printer' menu.
- Click 'Advanced' in the 'Print' menu.
- Under 'Color handling', select 'Printer Color Management'.
- Click 'OK'.
- Click on 'Page Setup' in the 'Print' menu.
- Click 'Format For:' and choose 'epsposter.pmc.ucsc.edu'
- Click on 'Paper Size'.
- Click on 'Manage Custom Sizes'.
- Set the 'height' and 'width' to the size of your poster. Max dimension is 42 inches wide (the width of the paper minus the margins).
- Click 'OK'.
- Click 'OK' in the 'Page Setup' dialog box.
- Click the button 'Actual Size' button under 'Size and Paper Handling'.
- Orientation should be set to 'Auto'
- Click 'Print'.
- The 'PaperCut' application should pop up.
- Login again.
- This will launch a dialog box that says that 'Your document has been held in a queue'...
- Click 'OK'.
- Login again to 'PaperCut' by clicking on 'Details' in the 'PaperCut' window in the right-hand corner of the screen.
- This will launch a web browser application.
- Click on 'Jobs Pending Release' in the left-hand menu.
- You should see your print job pending.
- Click on the 'Print' link.
- The print job should appear on the printer front panel after a minute.
- When the poster is printed, it will spend a couple of minutes drying the ink before the paper is cut automatically.
- If the paper runs out, change the paper and reprint.
- Spare paper in on the counter by the computers.
- It is labeled '44 Inch HP Universal Instant Dry Gloss Photo' paper.
- Remove the paper spool rod from the printer.
- Lift the paper roll cover on the back of the printer.
- The rod the paper spools on pops fits into a socket on the printer on both sides.
- Pull up on the paper roll and it will come out of the right-hand side socket.
- Remove the old roll of paper.
- Slide the endcap off on the right-hand side of the paper spool rod.
- Slide off the old paper roll.
- Unpack the spare paper and insert the rod though the new paper-roll such that the paper wraps around the rod in a clockwise direction.
- Put the paper spool rod endcap back on the paper spool rod.
- Ensure that the blue cap fits snuggly on the spindle and presses against the paper roll such that there isn't a grap between the paper and outter part the blue cap, e.g. the paper roll shouldn't be able to move around on the spindle.
- Reinsert the rod with the new paper roll on it into the printer.
- Touch the printer front panel on 'paper'. If 'paper' isn't listed, touch the home button.
- Touch 'Paper'.
- Touch 'load' next to 'roll'.
- Follow instructions on the printer front panel.
- Spare paper in on the counter by the computers.
- If the ink runs out, change out the ink cartridge and reprint your poster.
- Spare ink is in the drawer labeled 'Poster Printer Ink', by the computers.
- Take the ink out of the packaging.
- Open the panel on the front right-hand side of the poster printer.
- Touch 'ink' on the front panel. If 'ink' isn't listed, touch the home button.
- Touch the rows of text in the circle in the bottom right corner of the front panel.
- Touch 'Replace'.
- Select the ink to be replaced.
- Remove the old ink cartridge.
- Insert the new one.
- Touch 'done' on the printer front panel.
- Put the old ink cartridge in the box for the new printer ink cartridge and leave it on the counter. It will be recycled.
- Only replace the cartridge that is out or cartridges that are very-nearly out. Printer ink is expensive.
- Reprint your poster.
- On the printer screen (on the actual poster printer), touch the button that says, 'Job Queue'. If 'Job Queue isn't listed, touch the home button.
- Select your print job and touch 'reprint'.
- If reprinting doesn't work, please go through the relevant steps to reprint your poster and contact epstech@ucsc.edu for a refund on duplicate charges.
Other Poster Printing Options
MPress Digital Printing
Address: 252 Potrero St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831) 420-1999
FedEx
Address: 712 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831) 425-1177
UPS Store
Address: 849 Almar Ave Ste C, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831) 426-5762