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echo: tech
to: Roy J. Tellason
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 2003-06-02 19:29:18
subject: Refills.

-=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Jasen Betts <=-

 RJT> Jasen Betts wrote in a message to JEAN PARROT:
 
 JB> yeah, I haven't seen any real blue blueprints for quite a while...
 JB> I haven't seen any in A2 or larger sizes since then either.

 RJT> There have been one or two places in the area here that use *huge*
 RJT> printers,  or maybe plotters,  where the larger sizes of paper are
 RJT> moved through them, across the top.  Probably their clients are
 RJT> engineering and architectural firms,  I would guess that a number of
 RJT> those firms may farm this sort of thing out rather than buying all
 RJT> that expensive equipment themselves... 

Well, 10 years ago, the company I was working for had an E size plotter
and a blueprint machine that could copy an E sized drawing. As well as
one other equally huge device.

For those not familar with the "engineering" sizes:

B       11x17
C       22x17
D       22x34
E       44x34

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