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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3 Comments

green.noah6d 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.elliot6d 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_henderson216d ago

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