problems printing ft plans

[clouddancer]

Im having trouble getting plans printed correctly .
Specifically the ft 3d and the baby blender.
I emailed plans to Office Max, and after they couldnt determine what settings were neeeded for the size.
I told them it should fit within a 20in x 30in length and width. After three attempts with the ft3d, the page 2 seemed right.
The fire wall was 2in.wide and canopy part was 2in. wide and the wings were just under 15 in.each
Page 1 was way off, the fusalage was1and1/4 wide and way to short. They charge $9.00 per print and after 4 trys, i stil dont have workable plans.
Any help here on how you guys get these plans printed would be much appreciated. Specifically what settings could i tell them to use that will print these plans correctly.
Thanks, Scott

 

[BobK]

Do you have a printer at home? If you do just print the tiled plans and glue or tape them together

 

[clouddancer]

Thanks for putting that idea back in my head. Idont have a printer right now,and really cant afford to buy one.
I can get prints on regular copy paper at my local library for about 5cents a copy.
I will do that if i cant get the full size plans done.
Office Max can print up to 24in.wide and almost any length. Its odd though that page 2 printed good,and page 1 didnt.
they also tryed to print the ( baby blender) plans and that was worse.
everything was out of perportion, the included wheels on the printed plan werent even perfectly round?
Thanks for the reply!

 

[BobK]

Well this is an easy to fix, instead of wasting money at Office Max go buy a $5 printer at a thrift store then you can print all the plans you want.

 

[clouddancer]

Sounds like common sense to me!
Thanks bobk