I am wanting to have some drawings found in Model Railroader enlarged to O Scale. I asked at Office Max and the clerk quoted a price of $20.00 each. This sounds a little high to me, what say you? Thanks, Scott.
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Seems high.
Go to any place that has a decent printer (Kinko's, e.g.) and do it your self for, like, a quarter. The limitation seems to be to the nearest 1%, if you can tolerate that. Me, I'm happy to the nearest 1%.
Me too. I have done this often. Earlier Xerox machines required two steps, but now you can get the enlargement in one shot. Probably closer to 50 cents.
I have a Brother large format printer (MFC-J6720DW) that can scan and print up to 17"x14". It's not always big enough, but does the job most times.
Obviously one isn't going to buy one just to save $20 once in a while, but it's worth considering getting one the next time your regular computer printer needs replacing. It does legal printouts as well which is pretty useful as well.
Try finding a local print shop instead of the FedEx/Kinko’s, Staples and Office Max options. Most have a scanning system that reads your original into the computer. It can then be enlarged to another scale.
That is what he did, and that is why $20 instead of fifty cents.
Come on, now - almost all of my locomotives are 17/64, done with the aid of blown-up Xerox copies. Once you do the math it is trivial at Kinko's. Expensive at the printer's. Same result- most of us cannot work to better tolerances than Xerox copies.
Do what TODDMODEL said. I have an architectural print shop around here and they re-scaled a large clipper ship plan for me for very little money.
