Sri's Big Busy Ship

A 30x42 Engineering Print from a huge HP Inkjet at Staples. You can see the original source diagrams at the bottom left and right.

The Ship Operations / Activity Bingo Board mashup I made a few days ago was hard to read, so I ordered engineering prints from Staples. They have a big HP Inkjet printer that prints in "business color", which is good enough for diagrams but not good for photos. My ship diagrams are the perfect candidate. It's easy to upload the files and then pick them up the next day at your local Staples Print Center.

I had two prints made:

An 18x24 inch printout of just the ship (right side of the photo above), with additional lamination. Without lamination it would have been around US$5.00, with lamination it was $9.15.
A 30x42 print, unlaminated, for $9.45.

It's now much easier for me to actually read the text, but I have a new problem: I don't have enough wall space to hang them up! I'll have to figure something out.

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