Update: My old plotter finally gave out during a big deadline week

It happened on Tuesday, right in the middle of a rush job for a commercial site plan. I had to finish the final Mylar set for a 3pm pickup. I ended up running the last two sheets on the office manager's small format printer, tiling them together and checking every line. The client never knew there was a problem, and they signed off on everything. Has anyone else had to improvise with printer tiles for a big deliverable?

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4 Comments

green.noah8d ago

Glad it worked for you but I would never tile a final Mylar set. The seams can cause real problems for scanning and microfilm later. I would have told the client about the delay and gotten an extension.

smith.elliot8d agoTop Commenter

Had a project back in 2012 where we tiled some D-size Mylars for a county records job. The scanning vendor sent us a photo of a seam lifting after six months in storage. They said the microfilm would show a permanent line right through a property boundary. That one image changed my whole view on it. Now I just explain the risk to the client and push the deadline.

wendy_henderson218d ago

My buddy's tiled permit set got rejected because the seams looked like cracks in the foundation.

grant.olivia5h ago

That scanning vendor story hits home. We had a client who needed old blueprints scanned for a legal case, and the tiled seams created these faint lines that looked like revisions. The other side's expert tried to say they were unauthorized changes. Cost us two weeks in court delays just to prove it was the scanning process.