I do not know about your area, but many of the local blueprint shops now use an OCE' machine. This scans your plan then makes numerous B&W copies. You only need to have the first step completed. Just get on the telephone, and ask those in the yellow pages, as to if they have an OCE' machine or not.

There are several now around here, but is one particular place about three miles from here with an OCE' machine. I just haul about five plans over to them at one time, they scan it while I wait, then I give them a CD-ROM disk to write information to.

The firm charges about $5 each, if I bring my own disk. Otherwise they add on $10 to the cost for one of theirs. They are famous for saying my disk is No Good. Try again, OK? They often tend to try using the wrong software.

They like to scan in a compressed TIF format. Not many home computers have the software to disolve this format. So state what format you expect to receive the files in. Otherwise it may be in a format to which you cannot use.

Local Kinkos will not scan to file. Only local blueprint shops will now.

And, if you are using Windows, remember the default limitations.

Wm.