There are a lot of reasons to choose blueprintsprinting.com for all your construction plan and large format  printing needs.  Let’s review four of the most obvious ones….

Price:  We beat our competition’s prices by 50 – 75%  Where else can you get Arch D (24 x36) black and white prints for just 66¢ a sheet?  Our low prices beat our competitors’ on every type of large format print, every type of paper, any binding you desire, etc.  However, don’t think that because we are inexpensive we are compromising on quality.  We use the latest and greatest printing technology to deliver high-quality, high def prints every time.  Some of our recent print projects are being hung in an art show!   We just can’t be beat!!

Convenience:  Our online platform is super user friendly and easily accessible to order blueprints from your mobile device or desktop.  You are going to really appreciate the time and hassle you save by simply uploading your plans, blueprints, and other project files to your Blueprints Printing account and placing your order through our online system.  No need to make multiple trips to the print shop or local reprographer.  We will print your documents, and ship them to wherever you need them. Super Convenient!

Speed:  Which brings us to another big selling point –  we print projects out fast!  In most cases we will print your documents the same day that you place your order.  So in most cases you can have your documents within 24 – 48 hours (depending on the time of day you place your order) with our overnight shipping option.

Multiple shipping options: Our final competitive advantage is that not only do we get prints out fast – we get them to wherever you might need them.  Our platform allows you to select multiple shipping addresses.  So you can ship your project documents to your client, your contractor, and other members of you team scattered across the country, if needs be.

Sign up at Blueprintsprinting.com today and take advantage of all the ways that we can make your life and your business run a little smoother!  Order blueprints today and see!

Well, things are starting to get busy at Blueprintsprinting.com.  The orders for all manner of printing projects keep rolling in.  Everyone is gearing up for a big spring construction boom.  Our customers couldn’t be happier to have found us.  They are saving time, money, and headaches by using our innovative printing services to simply upload their pdf files and order their prints – all right from their desktop or mobile device!  Plus, our high tech printers turn out some of the highest quality prints available.  In fact we recently printed some large format black & white photographs that will be hung in an art gallery in San Francisco!  Have a look at some of the customer feedback we have gotten recently:

“I am most pleased that my order has already been printed and shipped FEDEX.  Thank you for that information.

Because you gave me the tracking number, I am able to track this until it arrives, and it is expected to be delivered Monday, which is earlier than expected, thank you.

 It is refreshing and unusual for such care to be taken with a response for an order of less than $100. Please keep up the good work.

I like how your company works.   I can download my files as soon as I finish the drawings, and they show up wherever I need them.

Why would anyone spend time and gas to go back and forth with a local print shop?  (Guess that’s why the company I used before just went out of business)   Excellent job,  thank you.”

 Pete

Construction Manager

“WOW…what incredible prints…the quality of these things is beyond awesome…you folks have just gained a repeat customer!

I am going to refer you to our engineering dept…

Great job to all involved….Bravo.

More map jobs to come…fur sure”

Thanks Again,

Dave

We aim to please folks!  Thank you to all our wonderful customers.  We look forward to serving all your printing needs….. and to bringing you an awesome and innovative construction, design, and architectural software platform very soon!

There are a few other companies out there that provide services similar to what we offer at Blueprintsprinting.com.  However, there are a number of ways that we have set ourselves apart in the online printing services sector.  Here are just a few of the reasons you are going to want to choose Blueprintsprinting.com for all of your print projects, not to mention for your construction management software needs:

After taking everything into account, including time spent in the ordering process, shipping, and printing costs, we are by far the best deal out there.  Here is a quick cost comparison example:

• Cost per sheet from the cheapest of our competitors for 24×36 prints is 95¢ with free 3 day shipping.  Our price is 66¢ per sheet, but we do charge for shipping. Our shipping costs average about $15, varying according to your location and the size of your order – some orders are shipped for less than half that, some are a little more.  Our ordering process can be done completely online without any need to call in to speak with customer service unless you really want to.  All or our competitors require time to generate your project price quote and phone calls with their customer service reps.  So when does the savings of 29¢ a sheet and the time saved dealing with customer service and waiting for a quote make up for our shipping charge?  Of course this varies from customer to customer and order to order, but a pure cost calculation (leaving out time and convenience factors) indicates that the savings per sheet on an order over 50 pages will almost always make up for the shipping charges.  Remember this is comparing us to our lowest cost competitor.  Many of our competitors are charging as much as $1.90 per large format sheet and are not offering free shipping.  No need for a detailed comparisons there – we beat them hands down!

• We are by far the most convenient and fastest for large format printing service out there.  As mentioned, our ordering process can be
  completed totally online.  No need to call in, take a trip to the print shop, or spend time hassling about order specifications.  We designed our platform with the architectural, construction, and engineering industries in mind so that you can simply upload your pdf, select the paper weight, size (8.5×11, 9×12, 11×17, 12×18, 18×24, 22×34, 24×36, 30×42, 34×44, or 26×48), color or b&w, and binding options – all from simple drop down menus on our online ordering platform.  When compared with our competitors’ ordering processes, Blueprintsprinting.com saves you time and headache!

• We can ship orders to multiple addresses.  Our online ordering process also gives you the option to ship copies of your print orders anywhere you need to in the country.  Ship your construction plans to your office, your jobsite, your subcontractors’ offices, etc. – all a simple straightforward part of the ordering process.  Our competitors don’t have this functionality integrated into their ordering process.

• We give you your own cloud storage/media manager on our website so you can store your documents and construction plans in an organized way and be ready to order prints quickly.  You get 150mb of storage for free when you create an account with us. You can purchase additional storage space for very reasonable prices.  This mean all of your documents that you have printed or may need to print in the future are there at your fingertips on the Blueprints Printing cloud.

• We have a team of programmers that our working to bring you additional time and money saving construction management software and online platforms.  Read about other planned software modules here.

As  we are sure you can see, our time saving, cost saving, and cutting edge platforms and technologies make us the obvious choice for all your printing needs.

There are many exciting things on the horizon in 2015 for Blueprints Printing and for the construction industry as a whole.   There are also a number of trends and emerging changes to keep an eye on as you plan for business in the new year.

After much planning, strategy, marketing research, and web design in 2014, we successfully  launched our website in September.  The orders started to role in shortly thereafter, and we were able to iron out a few minor kinks in our operation.  We are very happy with our blueprints printing and delivery processes now, and we are confident that are system is a fully optimized and well-oiled machine going into 2015. We are excited and ready to print and ship out all of those spring construction project plans.  The team is gearing up now to really put some time and man hours into our plan room  software development and our construction industry social networking platform.  Look for those new features to be available for integration into your Blueprintsprinting.com accounts sometime towards mid year.

Speaking of 2o15 construction projects; what does it look like for construction in 2015?  We know new construction has been picking up over the past year, and we are hopeful that this trend will accelerate on into 2015.  With oil prices lower than they have been in at least 5 years, and the U.S. economy picking up speed, we expect to see a strong market for new construction and remodels next year.  We decided to dig around a little to see what the experts were saying….

Dodge Data and Analytics estimates commercial building to increase by 15% in 2015; institutional building to rise 9%, and public works construction to increase 5%.  The National Association of Homebuilders estimates that as the economy improves, millennials find work and move into their own homes, there will be increased demand for single-family and multi-family housing production.  They estimate 802,000 and  356,000 new starts in each of these categories respectively over the coming year. The regions likely to see the most growth in new construction in 2015 are predominantly in the south including the metro regions of Houston, Charlotte, San Antonio, Dallas, Nashville, and Charleston, with substantial growth also expected in Seattle and Salt Lake City.  Expected growth notwithstanding, we expect the importance of efficiency and cost saving measure to continue in the construction industry.  The days of large margins are unfortunately behind us, which is why the low cost services that we provide at blueprintsprinting.com will continue to be essential.

Some trends we expect to see gaining steam in the construction industry include increasing focus on sustainable design, and Leed certified buildings.  We also expect to see continued emphasis placed on “smart city” infrastructure projects as well as more vertical development within metropolitan areas.

Within the design/build industry we are also, of course, expecting to see the professionals moving more and more toward mobile construction management products which is why we are staying focused on making our site and all of our services mobile friendly.  2015 will also be a continuation of gradual shift toward electronic blueprints and digital sharing of plans.  Our bridging platform will make that transition smooth and painless.

All in all, we expect 2015 to be a prosperous year for all of us in the design/build industries!  We hope you will come share in the prosperity and journey through the year with us.  Happy New Year from the Blueprints Printing team!!

Well, we got off to a great start this fall – getting the website up and running, forming some wonderful strategic partnerships, and shipping out quite a few print orders.  As we take a moment to reflect on our progress thus far before breaking for the holidays, we find ourselves quite pleased.  And, we are really looking forward to everything that the New Year is going to bring.  We have big and exciting plans for next year. As we have mentioned, we will be rolling out some new construction management software and social networking packages that we think will really create some amazing efficiencies in the design/build industries.  We look forward to bringing on some new programming and customer support staff next year as well.

Unfortunately, if blueprints were on your holiday shopping list, it is a little late to get them ordered now and still have them arrive in time for Christmas.  However, we do look forward to helping you out with all of your upcoming spring construction projects.  We hope you will remember us when it comes time to order those blueprints or any other type of printing your in need of.  Remember us when you are looking for online plan storage, and when you are in the market for construction management software.  We look forward to providing you with the lowest prices, the best service, and the fastest delivery again in 2015.  Keep an eye for our new software launches next year!

Wishing you all Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year!!

Having been in the reprography industry for quite some time, I can tell you that one of the best new products on the market is the Tyvek blueprint or banner for the job site.  In an environment where mud, dirt, snow, rain, sawdust, and metal shavings are all common, paper blueprints tend to go through a deconstruction machine right as you construct the very building they lay out.

How often have construction plans been so beat up that the revisions get lost in translation?  How often does some accidental plumbing leak hose down the plans?  How often do you wish that John wouldn’t splash the blueprints with the drink and mustard from the hotdog he just got at 7-Eleven, because it covered up and washed out the redlines that you painstakingly did just the other day?  These and many other scenarios are so common on job sites, and in the trailer, that blueprints are only safe for a moment. 

Tyvek, as you know, is the weatherproofing that is incredible when wrapping a building.  It rarely tears, is water- and weatherproof, and now, you can print on it.  Blueprints can be washed off, and they still retain their inks, whether printed or drawn on them with pen.  These types of job site blueprints are being adopted by some of the biggest construction companies in the West.

We wanted to make Tyvek affordable, really affordable, to you.  Whether you are a major construction company with huge projects or working on a custom home or roadbed, these Tyvek, weatherproof, waterproof blueprints are nearly bullet-proof and stand up to the toughest conditions.

Printed Tyvek also makes a great job site banner.  Much less than traditional printed vinyl banners, Tyvek allows you to print a banner and get the word out about your construction service without spending a ton of money to do it.  These banners can be 3 ½ ft wide by any length you want, and at only a third the cost of vinyl, they make a ton of sense.  Because they are less expensive, you can change the marketing message that you have on it more frequently.

You can order Tyvek Banners or Tyvek Blueprints directly from our web site.  Now, let John eat in peace.  Your blueprints and revisions to the plans are safe now.

Recognizing that technology is changing our lives, our work, and our ways of interacting more quickly than ever before in history, we have designed the Blueprintsprinting.com platform in a way that allows it to easily be adapted to technological change.  The platform itself is designed to make the modernization process for architectural, construction, and engineering firms as painless as possible.

1. Cloud-based platform consolidating many different software modules
2. Subscription-based so you can buy what you need when you need it
3. Easy interfaces that allow you to keep all your information together in one spot
4. Simple and secure tracking of interactions
5. Consolidated reporting and easy-to-understand job management

Each module is designed as a pay-for-what-you-need service to help your firm to move to the next level of modernization on our platform step-by-step.  We like to refer to Blueprintsprinting.com as the design/build time machine – a transport vehicle which helps your firm arrive comfortably in the future.  By leveraging each level of our platform to move your organization on to the next level, you can systematically move from an analog design/build process to a digital one.

Level 1 – Printing

Currently offering printing services and delivery for customers across the United States, the foundation of Blueprintsprinting.com is easy enough to understand.  It is right there in our name – we print construction plans and blueprints.

1. Volume pricing for everyone at only $0.11 per square foot ($0.66 for Arch D plans on regular bond)
2. A place to store plans for one job or many jobs
3. Many different media (most papers, Tyvek, film, etc.)
4. Open to the public so anyone can print plans

We print plans using the latest and most efficient printing technology and ink.  We print on every commonly used type of stock, plus offer innovative weatherproof prints on durable Tyvek.   Our business model leverages excess capacities in order to provide the lowest possible cost for printing to our web clients nationwide.    Our shipping and logistics partner uses cutting edge logistics strategies and technology to help us offer fast, affordable shipping of hard copy prints.  Blueprints and plans can be delivered to multiple addresses through a single ordering process.

Level 2 – Cloud-Based Plan Room

We are fully aware that hard-copy blueprints are quickly becoming obsolete.  Construction firms, architects, and engineers are moving toward electronic versions and are deploying tablets and other mobile devices to the jobsite.  With this in mind, the next level on the Blueprints Printing platform is a secure, reliable (99.9999% uptime), cloud-based storage platform for construction plans and blueprints.  Storage space can be purchased by the Gigabyte on a subscription basis.  If your firm needs extra storage space one month but less the following month, our platform allows easy adjustment of your subscription with no minimum obligation.  This saves your business money on physical plan room storage space and allows you to be flexible and adaptable to changing seasons within your business.  Increase or decrease your storage space and associated cost easily and on a month-by-month basis.  Rest assured that your plans are safe and secure.

Once your business has made the move to electronic plans and cloud-based storage of those plans, it becomes necessary to be able to easily share those plans with your team, contractors, and clients.  You will be able to designate specific permissions on specific plans – share plans with whomever you need to share them with, while keeping the rest of your plans secure.

Level 3 – Professional Social Networking

Blueprints Printing’s platform will be integrated into a professional networking, social media platform which allows you to easily invite whomever you like to view your plans.

1. Build a robust social network that includes your colleagues, your project managers, your subcontractors, etc.
2. Digitally connect with all the parties that help you to complete a job and easily communicate and share plans and information
3. Free for basic service and subscription-based for higher levels of functionality
4. Advertise your services to architects, customers, and general contractors

Level 4 – Bid Software

Our bid and broad estimating and proposal building software is the next piece along this platform.  Once you have a network of contractors and project partners at your fingertips using our social networking platform, our bid software makes it a simple process to share project parameters and ask for bids on the various components of your project.  Our software will allow you to easily compile, aggregate and compare bids, and it allows you to build a proposal for a potential client with simple templates that can be printed immediately or shared as PDF or HTML web-page.

Levels 5 through 11

The more secret of our modules will help you integrate across all levels of a job.  Stay tuned.  These modules are built with advanced, patented technology that is not available anywhere else.  This technology will allow integration with government and other entities across the platform to give you unparalleled access and time-savings.  Integrating the technology across our platform is a longer process and should be completed within 3 to 5 years.

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We are excited about the way our new processes coming along, and we are happy that you have chosen to grow with us over the next few years.  We know that you will find incredible value in our services as we find incredible value in working with you.

Mission Statement:

We create easy-to-understand and easy-to-use tools and printed products to assist our clients in simplifying, streamlining, and modernizing their building, construction, and infrastructure projects. Our web-based platform and services facilitate printing, communication, and smooth exchange of information, ideas, and plans between architects, engineers, construction companies, subcontractors, and customers. We provide printing solutions, communication tools, and web-based products to help our clients gain and share information, find solutions, and market to new customers. Our team is passionate about helping visionaries, planners, and builders in navigating the construction process.

Customer Promise:

As our customer and client, expect the following:

1. We build simple, powerful tools to assist you in building your visions and the visions of your clients and customers.
2. We focus on delivering powerful and easy solutions for printing, distributing, communicating, and sharing the visions, plans, diagrams, and documents that are at the foundation of any construction or infrastructure project. Our products and services make it easy to communicate your plans and specifications with your clients and customers, with your partner companies, and with your teams.
3. We focus on delivering the tools we provide at the lowest possible cost to our clients with simple interfaces, knowing that in this way we are assisting you in becoming more profitable, quicker, and more efficient.
4. We design our processes, our sites, and our tools with simple objectives in mind – make it easy-to-use, clear, concise, and time-saving, allowing you to get the job done with minimal investment of money, time, and energy.

In case you thought that the only thing we could print was blueprints, we thought you should know that we recently fulfilled an order for professional family portraits printed on Tyvek. We will print and ship, to your specifications, any pdf document you upload to our site. Whether it is posters, banners, concept maps, topographical maps, GIS maps, presentations, spec books, you name it. The only limit is your imagination. Our high quality, high definition printers allow us fulfill virtually any printing need and our logistics partners help us get your print orders delivered faster than just about anybody out there. We didn’t expect to get many orders for family portraits, but we were happy to do it…. and they came out great!