Savannah Blueprint is an architectural/engineering blueprinting business which has been in town since the 1920s and now has offices in Stateboro and elsewhere in the region. While that's very impressive to me, I feel like their services have perhaps been eclipsed in some regards by Image is Everything and other local business which cater to SCAD students' printing needs. That said, Savannah Blueprint has always been a blueprinter servicing the industries which use arch/industrial reprographics and not a typical printer. They still get a good deal of business from SCAD kids in the building arts fields plus professionals in the same areas and those in civil, structural, and marine engineering. CADD, desktop publishing and good office/home printers which don't cost a king's ransom have all changed the game and yet these guys hang in and seem to do alright.
All the work I've had done by Savannah Blueprint has been just fine. I have no complaints, but then once you've been in this field over ten years you probably have things down, and these folks have been here nearly a century. Why three stars? Savannah Blueprint also carries a number of drafting and surveying instruments and supplies and I've found their selection to be a little lackluster and some of the supplies downright dusty. The downtown office is small and crowded and while I don't fault them for that, I feel that if they want to offer core drafting supplies they could expand their selection because no one much else in the region has a good selection and they, with their history here, could corner the market. Savannah Blueprint also carries--or at least used to carry--USGS maps, but now you can get those for free as PDFs online straight from the source.
Sometimes it feels like businesses like Savannah Blueprint are being slowly forced to go the way of the dinosaur due to the Internet and digital innovation, but I think they'll adapt as they have all along. I'm glad they're here, but wish they'd expand their supplies selection and make their website better. read more