Printing Posters at Uni Karlsruhe

• printers
• standard paper dimensions

High Quality Output

The HP DesignJet 2500, and the Epson 9000, both offer good quality output. The HP printer can choke on complicated data. The Epson may be the safest choice.

File Format

Use encapsulated PostScript, compressed with gzip. The Macromedia FreeHand application can work directly with eps files. It is possible to convert PostScript to eps, but may cause bounding box errors. If such is the case, ensure that the eps file doesn't have DOS style line-feeds (at least where the bounding box is defined). OmniGraffle has worked well for me, especially using its layers to manage the complexity of a poster. But it generates an eps file with a HiResBoundingBox defined prior to the normal BoundingBox; you will need to move the BoundingBox line before the HiResBoundingBox to be compatible with the Uni's print software. If your file has errors, error messages will probably be delivered as email to your rz account.

Print Queue

To queue the print job, use the pm command on the Rechenzentrum Linux machines.