Am looking for a print shop in NYC that can take hand drafted (black lines on white) 42" drawings and print me the negative of them - white lines on black - like blueprints but blackprints actually...
it seems this is a rather obsolete practice the last place i asked they said that they'd stopped doing it 20 yrs ago , anyone know of a place that might be able to do i t ? does it take long, and does one have to bump up the line weights to get them to come out, and how do you think of the those drawings look anyway..?
Just get a copy place to "reverse" your drawings.....I would imagine anyplace with a oversize copier can perform this act......I recall paying $2 per drawing to have this done....
Nowadays, copy places can copy onto anything, in large formats. If they don't have the transparent 'negative paper' (like a roll of plastic), you may need to go to Pearl and see if they have something that can be xeroxed.
Then xerox the original onto the transparency and re-xerox to white paper.You will have to pay twice and see if the xerox can clealy transfer your original to the transparency.
Perhaps you could go to a copy shop, say kinko's, and have them scan the drawings to disc. Take the scanned files into photoshop, or your photo editing software of choice, and invert the images yourself. This way, you could adjust the saturation, contrast, brightness as well as other things. Save the files and have someone print them off for you.
Some Kinko's have OCE copiers with inverse options = Cheap.
I've used it many times. Just feed your full size drawings right through, self-serve.
Otherwise any old-school reprographics shop will do it.
yeah wasted ink. Do it yourself my hand and waste the time while you are at it.
Nonetheless I agree - a lost art. and rather beautiful. You will have to up the line weight to at least a .85mm to actually have it consistent throughout the drawing. Especially at that size you will get the distortion
Blackprints...?
Am looking for a print shop in NYC that can take hand drafted (black lines on white) 42" drawings and print me the negative of them - white lines on black - like blueprints but blackprints actually...
it seems this is a rather obsolete practice the last place i asked they said that they'd stopped doing it 20 yrs ago , anyone know of a place that might be able to do i t ? does it take long, and does one have to bump up the line weights to get them to come out, and how do you think of the those drawings look anyway..?
Just get a copy place to "reverse" your drawings.....I would imagine anyplace with a oversize copier can perform this act......I recall paying $2 per drawing to have this done....
C, they look really good, but I can never quit thinking about the ink they wasted to get that sexy look.
I think marlowe is right. This can be done.
Nowadays, copy places can copy onto anything, in large formats. If they don't have the transparent 'negative paper' (like a roll of plastic), you may need to go to Pearl and see if they have something that can be xeroxed.
Then xerox the original onto the transparency and re-xerox to white paper.You will have to pay twice and see if the xerox can clealy transfer your original to the transparency.
Perhaps you could go to a copy shop, say kinko's, and have them scan the drawings to disc. Take the scanned files into photoshop, or your photo editing software of choice, and invert the images yourself. This way, you could adjust the saturation, contrast, brightness as well as other things. Save the files and have someone print them off for you.
thanks for the tips. zero , youre right they are sexy.
Some Kinko's have OCE copiers with inverse options = Cheap.
I've used it many times. Just feed your full size drawings right through, self-serve.
Otherwise any old-school reprographics shop will do it.
However, some staff/architects hate them, you have been warned...
yeah wasted ink. Do it yourself my hand and waste the time while you are at it.
Nonetheless I agree - a lost art. and rather beautiful. You will have to up the line weight to at least a .85mm to actually have it consistent throughout the drawing. Especially at that size you will get the distortion
The type of paper is important. That amount of ink on a 24x36 looks horrible on standard, cheap plotter vellum.
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