Overview

Plan Printing refers primarily to B&W/greyscale & line printed outputs on paper larger than A3 size. These drawings are typically generated using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software applications such as AutoCad™ & Vectorworks™ for example.

Printline offer professional quality digital laser outputs, both for small or large volume jobs at industry competitive rates that really deliver. Send your print files without clogging your email up using our “Send print job” facility. This is a free service allowing you to upload an unlimited amount of files in one go, and without any file size restrictions.

For colour lines or renders on your prints, see “Colour Plan Printing”

If you have an existing paper plan you need copied see “Copying”

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Sizes
ISO standard sizes, A2, A1, A0, B2, B1
Custom sizes available up to 914mm x 4000mm

Size Chart - click for larger view


Mediums
Bond 80gsm - standard plan paper
Tracing paper 90gsm - opaque
PVC film 98gsm – opaque film

File types accepted
1. PDF (.pdf) adobe Portable Document Format. PDF files are by far the easiest to handle. You can create them using any PDF writer or use the built in PDF creator if you have one.
2. PLOT (.plt) – plot files are created from ADI or HDI drivers for OCE TDS-400 or use generic driver like a HP-GL2 to create plot files, although these have less features.
3. POSTSCRIPT (.eps) – postscript files are created from the Postcript 3 driver.
4. TIF (.tif) – Tagged Image File, created from an image writer. Not the optimum file type for quality.

Go to “Download printer driver” if you need to download a driver for your computer.



Some plans require colour to differentiate lines and legends or have colour rendered content, in this case you need colour plan printing. Printline offers professional quality Designjet outputs with excellent line reproductions and superb graphic output quality of rendered objects.

Sizes (see size chart above):
ISO standard sizes, A2, A1, A0, B2, B1
Custom sizes available up to 1066mm x 4500mm

Paper:
98gsm coated or 170gsm heavyweight coated.

File types accepted:
• PDF (.pdf) Adobe Portable Document Format.
• JPEG (.jpeg) compressed image format
• TIF (.tif) Tagged Image File

For best results and reliable consistent printing we recommend you use Adobe PDF.
You will need to set your PDF creator to a “High Quality Print” setting or configure it manually. You will need a minimum of 300dpi for images, 600dpi maximum. All images in files can be left as RGB colour space. Your document should also be scaled correctly, for example an A1 poster should measure 84.1cm x 59.4cm.
Please open & check your PDF file before sending the job to Printline.
Image files such as JPEG and TIF can also be used.

If you need to copy an existing paper colour plan see “Copying” on the menu for further information.