Adding Text to a printed sheet of paper

Some roll feed plotters have an option within the menu to take cut sheets.?ÿ Look under Feed or Media settings. If yours does then the handbook should tell you how to align the sheet so that the "grip" picks up in the correct place - all you then need to do is to remember to feed it in the right way round!

It's always much easier to spot the deliberate mistake on the paper print than on the screen.

So the surveyors I work with print the needed text on a piece of paper then tape it firmly to the map they need to place it on. The scan or copy it (we have both large format scanner & copier). Then just re-plot the map back out if it's a scan. I know that when we have a recorded plat that the client's already signed but say DOT or county planning wants and added note then we have one of those older electrical LeRoy lettering machines. It works just as good and looks official usually so long as you select the right type of font. Even works if you forgot to add a bearing or distance for some reason or need to add an after the fact inset/blowup of an area

add text in cad and re-print.?ÿ Time is money.?ÿ?ÿ If you want to re-use the print, cut up for notepads or make a paper machie hat.

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@andy-j

My kids love it when I mess up a plot.?ÿ 24" X 36" of colouring paper.

Some misprinted subdivisions have been coloured into places where the roads are rivers, the building outlines are mermaid's square caves, and easements are where the unicorns go to play.?ÿ Both sides get used.

@andy-j

So true. Not worth the time and hassle. And will never look quite right.  

@ncsudirtman

that's just horrible.  sorry, but those days were over 30 years ago.     LeRoy?  really??   wow.  

When the text is not very long, I will simply hand-letter it on the master and make copies.

There is always someone within every group that has unknown skills like perfect writing skills and it is usually one of the green hands.

@andy-j

well we typically do so if it's the original that somebody such as the client or permitting authority has already signed. otherwise then yes, we would re-plot a new one. 

@a-harris

Well, there are some issues I see with that.  

1)   He said he was going to Re-send it through the printer ??  or type something and the MAKE ANOTHER COPY anyway..  so why not do it right? 

2)  I wouldn't have any problem hand writing a minor revision, BUT some might worry that it wasn't done by me and I don't want to open that can of worms.  

3)  there was mention of making revisions AFTER others had already signed a print..  That seems possibly unprofessional, as it might appear that they weren't in on the changes.  People sue over the smallest of things these days.  I still say re-print from the plotter. 

Andy 

Office practice is to REPRINT maps even with single letter grammar errors. The paper & ink cost less than what the clients will think of your wrong spellings.

@andy-j

That is best when you have the time.

I would never change or add to any signed drawing or other papers once they made their way into others hands.

When I find a call or some descriptive text or other missing info, I will add it to the drawing and then take out all that was already there and put the first prints back into the printer and it will only print the missing information and save me some paper.