And they cost serious money. If you want to save money, trim time and genuinely conserve space, archive your drawings on CD media, Shaw suggests. And he contends he can put a couple of drawings in a megabyte of space. Either way, its footprint is no bigger than a legal pad. They can't find those files.
Somebody pulls out a drawing and spills coffee on it.
And drawings that are blueprinted continue to age, because the ammonia in the blueprinting process doesn't come out of the paper all at once. The life cycle includes creating and revising a document, as well as its storage, retrieval and reprinting. Not only that, but they'll also have immediate access to document images on CD media. The image can be down loaded to a large format printer that can be located either on site, or because we're dealing with digital data, at a remote location. In any event, the image is there, on the CD disc.