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Drawing Scanning

Every Drawing Office Manager knows that older drawings kept on paper or film in plan chests take up enormous amounts of space, and drawings can all too easily become damaged, lost or misfiled. Drawings, plans and maps up to 36” wide and almost any reasonable length can easily be scanned to a PDF or TIFF file in black and white. 

The scanner utilises the image enhancing software of the plan printers to give excellent results. The scanned images can also be sent direct to our printers, like plot files, for easy reproduction.

Case study:    In 2008 we have scanned over 2000 drawings on behalf of a London hospital. This has enabled them to clear seven drawing cabinets,  freeing up an entire room that was previously only used for storage. It also allows them to locate any drawing easily and most importantly captured the information before the prints deteriorated. Some record drawings were over twenty years old and required all of the scanner's image enhancement tools to salvage the image. (Some just needed invisible tape and TLC!)

Large Format Colour Scanning

In response to the increased use of colour in AEC and CAD drawings, we have invested in a new wide format colour scanner.

By linking a  40" wide colour scanner to our existing high speed plotter, we have created a large format, colour copy system suitable not only for AEC and CAD drawings, but also for posters and display graphics.

We can scan colour drawings to tif, pdf or jpeg.

We offer a vectorisation service to enable drawings to be scan into CAD compatible formats.

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