If you use blueprints and large drawings in your business, there should always be a system of utilizing and storing them so they can be easily organized and found when needed. At Office1000, we offer several different types of plan storage, whether your needs are small or large.There are several types of plan storage, organized mostly into either a flat file category or a plan file category. The difference in the two titles being mostly the design of the storage unit.
For example: In the case of the grouping of flat plan storage, the Safco steel flat files are multi drawer steel plan cabinets 
that are very nice looking and hold several sets of prints or even folders of prints inside each of the drawers. They can be purchased and stacked on top of each other and there are also closed and open bases available that make retreiving your drawings much easier since they are up off the ground. Other types of items in the flat file category would be items such as the giant stack trays, which are designed to hold a few sets of prints and keep them right in your work area. Also in this category would be the vertical flat file storage by AOS which consists of several flat folders that hold drawings. They are contained in a vertical box file that maintains the plans in their flat condition. 
This type of item is nice for transporting your drawings to job sites and so forth, since you can organize them any way you like within the folders. You could use any of these flat file systems as a working plan system or for plans that are just too new to put away. Or, perhaps in the case of the steel files where you only have a few sets of plans used by your company, you can just leave them in there in archival storage. They look so complimentary in an office setting, they just look like a piece of tasteful furniture.
In the case of the category of plan files on our website, there are items more suited to storing documents either in a hanging storage or rolled storage type container. These items are mostly free standing as the wall hung vertical storage is a different type of product.
In the plan file category, there are several types of items to choose from. You need to primarily decide how many sets of prints you are actually using and what you need to archive. You don't need to have plans that are old news lying around having to sort through them to get the ones you want.
In this category, you will find storage for working plans and archival plans such as Safco's MasterFile 2 series high density storage cabinet which holds up to 1600 individual prints and is designed to have the prints attached to individual carrier strips which are mounted on a series of pins and posts inside the cabinet. This unit is ideal for companies who utilize several drawings for large projects or just many smaller projects at the same time. This is more of a working file, since you would want to have current files available at your fingertips for easy selection. There are also vertical cabinets that allow the prints to slide in and out on a suspended rack. Other types of storage include units that attach to the wall that save floor space by easily hanging the prints.
The other type of storage is primarily a rolled storage type of unit. The Manager series made by AOS is a perfect alternative for rolled drawings and prints and can be altered inside to accomodate larger or smaller rolls just by adding or removing the dividers. It is a great for transporting documents for jobsites as well as archival storage. There are other great storage containers for rolled drawings available that can be stacked, labeled and organized very efficiently. These are mainly in a roll file category at that link. You can see there are several sizes and options available to tailor your storage for your prints exactly the way you want.
There are so many alternatives for drawing storage that it is difficult to provide information on all of them separately. By perusing the different links in this post, hopefully you will see the different methods available and find one that suits your needs perfectly. Or perhaps it will be a combination of different types of storage units; one for working plan storage, one for archives, perhaps a rolling file for moving plans from one work area to another, and maybe even one for transporting your drawings and prints safely and securely to jobsites.
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