I scaled many blueprints and drawings up and down when I worked in the refrigeration biz..
We had a large format scanner that you could feed a blueprint page into it and scale it down to a 8x12 or 11x17 sheet … it was handy to give the guys in the field a single page they could fit in their pocket instead of dragging around a full set of prints.. the scanner was pretty expensive, had its own computer to save files to, and I also tied it to our main servers.. the design and engineering guys had large format printers that we could print all sizes of prints.. I did CAD drawings of electrical control systems I designed and installed, and when I was finished with the job I would print out schematics and put them inside the electrical cabinets on site.
When I had my own business, I bought a large format printer, which I still have, but have since retired from the rat race… if anyone here wants to consider buying it, drop me a PM.
I’d sell it cheap, and packing/shipping would have to be done by a pack and ship store.
It’s big.
I’m not totally sure if it scales up and down, or if you would have to use an external program and then import the file…. but I can get the model number and do some research if anyone is interested in it.
BTW, it’s a Hewlett Packard machine…
