Blueprints have gone the way of the mimeograph, I guess. Too bad. I loved
the smell of those chemicals ... it made me feel I was doing something important
 and magical. Like sorcery.

You probably would get better results if you asked for "large  format
reproduction" or "engineering copies." They stick it in a big photo copy  machine -
my guy can do copies 36" wide and as long as you want to make  them. They
charge by the foot? square foot? Something like that. The  quality isn't really as
good as blueprints, but it's more stable (not light  sensitive).

Mary

In a message dated 12/20/2005 12:27:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Hello - Princeton School of Architecture,  can I help you?

Yes, thank you, I'm a historian in New York  City, I need the name of a local
blueprinter.  Does the school use an  outside blueprinter?

[silence]

Hello?

Ummm ... "blueprinting"?   What's  that?

Well, it's ... it's when you have to copy a  large architectural drawing, you
know, a really big one - one that you don't  have as a digital file.  To make
a big copy, you know, on  paper.   Maybe a diazo, sepia, ozalid. You might
have to  scan it first.  "Blueprinting", they still call it - to get a paper
print.

Well, umm, I don't think we do anything  like that  ... "blueprinting" - I've
never even heard that word.

Oh, well, uh... thank  you.