A contact print of a drawing or other image rendered as white lines on a blue background. A blueprint is generally a print of an architectural plan or technical drawing and is often used for construction purposes or obtaining permits.
A type of print used for copying engineering drawings and similar material. The name is popularly applied to two separate methods, more exactly designated as the blueprint and the whiteprint, or diazotype. In blueprinting, the older method, the drawing to be copied, made on translucent tracing cloth or paper, is placed in contact with paper sensitized with a mixture of ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide, which is then exposed to light. In the areas of the sensitized paper not obscured by the lines of the drawing, the light reduces the ferric salt to the ferrous state, in which it reacts with the potassium ferricyanide to form insoluble prussian blue. The exposed paper is then washed in water, producing a negative in which the lines of the drawing appear in white against a dark blue background.
Any of the prints made by the Ozalid process (the image can be blue, black or brown).
In printing, blueprint was the term used for monochrome prints of finished printing copy, owing to their faint blue colour. Today, even corresponding, simple black-and-white prints are generally referred to as blueprints. They serve as proofs for checking the completeness, position and content of the individual graphic elements (texts, images, etc.).
Pre-press photographic proof made from stripped negatives where all colours show as blue images on white paper. Because 'blueprint' is a generic term for proofs made from a variety of materials having identical purposes and similar appearances, it may also be called a blackprint, blue, blueline, brownline, brownprint, diazo, dyeline, ozalid, position proof, silverprint, Dylux and VanDyke.
The term used for monochrome prints of finished printing copy, derived from the light blue color of these prints. Today, even corresponding, simple black-and-white prints are generally referred to as blueprints. They serve as proofs for checking the completeness, position and content of the individual graphic elements (texts, images, etc.).
An architectural type drawing used by workers to build from. The original drawing is transferred to a sensitized paper that turns blue with white lines when printed. Also, prints of blue lines on white paper. Board measure.
A generic term for the representation of the work piece to be machined. It can be a pencil sketch or a CAD drawing or any of a number of other graphic options used to represent the design. The drawing below is a blueprint even though it is not blue in color as were the original blueprints of the previous century.
In printing, the same thing as a blueline.
photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.
a contact proof made like a printing plate, except on light-sensitive papers
a drawing made by someone called an architec
a drawing made by someone called an architect
a technical drawing of architectural plans
Reproductive prints of architectural and other technical drawings, having white images on blue backgrounds. "Blueline prints" are blue images on white backgrounds, "Cyanotypes" are blue-toned photographs produced by the blueprint process.
A printer's copy of direct mail material for review and possible correction before final press run. So called, because it is generally printed in blue ink.
The layout of structure to be created.
In printing, a type of photo-print used as a proof. It can be folded to show how the finished printed product will look.
A mechanical drawing of booth layout, construction, and specifications. Also see SET UP DRAWING.
A print made on paper or cloth, coated with light-sensitive iron salts, producing an image in white on a blue background.
The section of the program definition statement which sets out the vision for the program. The blueprint will include business model operation al performance measures, organization, information system s and support service requirements. Editor's Note: The word "blueprint" comes from the color of copies that used to be made of large engineering drawings in the middle of the last century. [D04929] KSI
In offset lithography and photoengraving, a photoprint made from stripped-up negatives or positives, used as a proof to check position of image elements.
Prepress photographic proof made from stripped negatives where all colors show as blue images on white paper.
A scaled drawing depicting dimensions, spatial arrangements, and functions, so called because of the blue ink used on drafting copies; also a document which describes the dimensions, concepts and functions of an initiative, such as the blueprint for a project.
In engineering, a line drawing showing the physical characteristics of a part.
A scale drawing of booth space layout, construction, and specifications.
The drawing of a structure by an architect or designer, used for construction and getting permits.
A blueprint is a plan or technical drawing usually documenting an architecture or an engineering design. More generally, the term "blueprint" has come to be used to refer to any detailed plan.