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In a message dated 4/20/2010 7:23:54 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
piolenc@archivale.com writes:
All in all, better to go to a service bureau (preferably NOT Kinko's, When I was still working I often needed copies of blueprints. The local
blueprint shop would receive them on disk from the various contractors or
architects and print what ever I needed. The problem was a typical full
construction set of 30 or so pages was around $600. Sure glad I didn't have to
pay for them. Staples ( and Kinkos ) have made smaller pages for me but the cost
for color prints that size is still pretty high. A typical picture that
I have had made was 16 X 30 and they run about $14 each, up to $35 if
it was a photo on glossy card stock. As I recall, the blueprint shop would make
a copy of a single page of a blueprint for about $15.
I would use these copies for change order proposals or sometimes as a tool
to explain to the engineers or architects why a certain thing wouldn't work or
couldn't be built, etc. You know the old saying...."looks good on paper, but you
can't get there from here "
I'd like to have some of the cool line drawings of the WW II subs in
blueprint size to hang on the shop wall.
Maybe even have a few so my grandsons could use them for crayon coloring.
Frank D.
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