Poster Printing at the DMC

• Poster printing services at the DMC are intended only for Rice students, faculty, and staff. Only walk-in service is available during our open hours.  

• Due to limited resources, group printing at the DMC is capped at 25 posters, as only one plotter is available. For larger group print jobs, please contact the Mudd Operations Center (Rooms 109/110), which has three plotters available to accommodate higher volume requests.
• The Poster Coordinator must:
  • Contact the DMC at dmc-info@rice.edu at least two weeks prior to the desired print date.
  • Provide charging information at the time of contact by filling out the group poster printing request form.

• Students can make payments using their Esther account or InterDepartmental Transfer (IDT). 
• Faculty and staff can only make payments using IDT. 
   

• Student Esther's account
  • student's Rice email 
  • student's ID
• IDT
  • Chart of Accounts (COA) - 10 segments
    • entity*
    • organization*
    • fund type*
    • fund source*
    • account*
    • classification*
    • program*
    • activity*
    • location*
    • future use*
  • Project Portfolio Management (PPM)
    • Grants
      • Project Number*
      • Task Number*
      • Expenditure Organization ID* (5 digits long, all numbers. Do not give us the old 6 digit banner number!!)
      • Funding Source Name

    • Internal

      • Project Number*
      • Task Number*
      • Expenditure Organization ID* (5 digits long, all numbers. Do not give us the old 6 digit banner number!!)

      * indicates the field is required. 

Receipt

You will receive a copy of the charging form in your email, which serves as a receipt. 

Poster files

• Please make sure your poster is available in PDF format. 
• If you are using Adobe Illustrator to design your poster, when exporting as a .pdf file, uncheck the checkbox that says "preserve editing capabilities" to ensure that all images and figures appear properly when printed.

• The DMC has 36" wide and 60" wide paper rolls. If the dimensions of your poster fall in between those two, you will be responsible for trimming off the excess. The DMC has a 60" wide paper cutter that you may use to do so.
   

• The average printout time for a poster is about 10-20 minutes. There might be a queue of posters to be printed when there is a poster event, or the DMC staff might be busy helping other patrons. The turnaround time will vary depending on the situation. 
• The DMC stops accepting new poster printing requests after the cutoff time, which is either 20 minutes before closing, or a staff-designated time when there is a long queue of posters to be printed. Patrons will need to return the next open day to print if they pass the cutoff time. 
   

Other campus print resources

• The Document Center  on the 4th floor of McNair Hall in room 410, from the Jones Graduate School of Business,
  If your poster or photo is smaller than 12"x18", in the interest of time, paper, and cost, please use the high-speed printing services offered by the Document Center from the Jones Graduate School of Business. They have gloss photo papers in Letter size and Tabloid size. They take credit card payments and IDT. Refer to their FY23 Printing Price Sheet for more information. 

• Printers on Fondren first floor

• The Operations Center in Mudd building Room 109/110, from the Campus IT
  There are three 36" wide plotters available there. Call Rice help desk at x4357 to get more information.