Flyer Design and Images

Printing Service

Ricoh Deutschland GmbH Printcenter LMU

The printing service for the LMU is: Hausdruckerei (Ricoh Deutschland GmbH Printcenter LMU)

You can find all information here (price list, formulars, etc).

Responsible Person: Thomas
Address: Ricoh Deutschland GmbH, Hausdruckerei der LMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Leopoldstr. 3, 80802 München
Phone: 089/2180-3669

Current opening hours of the in-house print shop:
Monday to Thursday from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Friday: CLOSED

If you want to print something, (e.g flyers) write a mail to hausdruckerei@lmu.de or call them and you can talk to them about your preferences.

Printy

An affordable external option for printing (especially for posters) is Printy

Location: near TUM Main Campus, Luisenstraße 49, 80333 Munich
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Typical process with Printy:

On their website, go to “Price calculators” → “large poster calculator”.
Leave the default settings that are automatically chosen (A0 format, 145 gr. silkmatt in & outdoor presentations, pickup Luisenstr.49, receipt).
Click “Request Order” which will open an email window with pre-drafted text containing your order details.
Upload a PDF version of your poster in this email and edit/add to the email where necessary.
Send the email and expect a reply (usually within the same day) to collect your poster.

For reference, an A0 poster here costs around €15,00

Canva

Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design platform that helps to create content, even without any design experience. Whether you want to make social media posts, presentations, posters, logos, or videos, Canva offers an easy drag-and-drop many customizable templates.

Click here to go to the Canva website
Click here for some instructions on how to use Canva

PowerPoint

Using Microsoft PowerPoint for Image Creation

We often use PowerPoint to create images or logos for various uses. Here are some helpful tips:

It is possible to resize the page by going to the Design tab → click on “Slide Size” → set the size with “Custom Slide Size…”
When importing images onto the slide, changing the color of that image may not always work perfectly (the color can be slightly off from what you select). The best format to get the most accurate color change is SVG. There are many websites with free-to-use icons that can be exported as SVG images, such as https://iamvector.com/. First, save the image as an SVG on your device, then import it into the slides.
SVG is the best format for maintaining high-quality images on the website. Even with multiple slides, you can save a specific slide as an SVG image.

Saving a PPT slide as .svg

Make sure you are on the slide you want to save → go to the File tab → click on “Save As” → change the format from .pptx to Scalable Vector Graphics Format (.svg) → click “Save” → a dialogue box will pop up, and you should select “Just This One”.