Link to Chinese Version.
This Friday, two days after writing this post, we will present our group project which requires a poster.
However, the poster printing process has been challenging.
Now I just submitted my poster for the third time and feel frustrated. So I write this blog at Sydney Jones Library.
First Attempt
Never used university poster printers before. Quite a new experience.
According to the university’s poster printing process, students need to log into campus computers, click “Install University Application”, select “Install Special Printer” to add the poster printer. After installing, you can print posters.
At XJTLU, I had previously modified PowerPoint resolution through registry edits for SURF poster submissions. So I exported as PNG and printed!
Result when collected next day:
Why is only the top strip printed?
IT staff told me to use PDF format.
👛 - £4.21
Second Attempt
After leaving the IT service center, I found a self-service printing computer. First topped up my account, exported PPTX to PDF, uploaded to the computer, installed the printer, and printed!
Immediately went to collect when notified, but:
As you can see in the picture, the poster printed out the second time is exactly the same as the first time.
By the way, seeing the second poster still had issues, I went back to IT. Arrived at 17:07 only to be told they had closed.
👛 - £4.21
Third Attempt (Current Status)
On the way to collect the poster, I met a classmate. I told him about my printing failures. He suggested directly using PowerPoint’s print function.
This time I followed his advice, printing directly from the slide view.
Waiting for results now.
Update:
Just got back to my dorm from the library. It’s drizzling outside—if I were in a good mood, this walk would have been quite pleasant, almost like stepping into the poetic atmosphere of “一蓑烟雨任平生 (ChatGPT translated as ‘one bamboo hat, one lifetime of carefree rain’)”
Perhaps I would have reminisced about those late-night study sessions with close friends, how we walked home together no matter the weather. Or maybe I would have thought about the time we celebrated after an exam with hotpot and then strolled through the park in front of our dorm in the early morning breeze. And certainly, I would have recalled leaving the Suzhou Culture and Arts Centre after a brilliant performance, then joyfully cycling for two hours along Jinji Lake back to the dorm.
But truth be told, I’m in a lousy mood. On the way back, all I could think about was how to complain about it in my blog.
The photo above was taken as I walked out of the library. Rather beautiful, isn’t it?
Life can be wonderful, what a shame.