Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Jasen Betts:

 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.

 LE> I was tempted by someone posting an 11x17 capable laser printer a
 LE> while back on a local forsale newsgroup. And I do have a plotter
 LE> that'll do 11x17 (HP 7475A)

What sort of price were they talking about for such a thing?  I used to
have some manuals that had a lot of foldout pages,  where that kind of
thing would come in handy.  Reminds me too of this place I worked at for a
while that had a photocopier that was picked because it was *very* good at
fine detail (the one partner was an engineer),  and it used *rolls* of
paper rather than sheets.  You could put in either an 8-1/2" wide roll
for most normal copies,  or an 11" wide roll for the foldout stuff. 
It was also handy for smaller stuff,  you'd just slide this pointer over to
the size you wanted,  and it'd cut the paper at that size.  I've never seen
another copier quite like it.

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