Universal Copy's 'Buckaplan' Revolutionizing Blueprint Copying, Meeting Demands & Changing Pricing

WATERBURY, Conn. - June 19, 2014 - PRLog -- Two years after introducing Waterbury, Connecticut-based Universal Copy’s Buckaplan, creator Brian Burke recently remarked, “We are radically revolutionizing how our printing services meet the high-pressure time and budgetary demands of the AEC marketplace-architects, engineers and contractors. We are the only known company in the country to copy blueprint plans for exactly $1/page/plan. Plus, we offer 24 hour turn-around delivery of copied plans that we receive by 5 p.m. EST the day before. It’s a business model that is upending how printers meet the time-urgent demands of the building design, engineering, contracting, development and realty industries.”

Introduced in 2012, Burke’s Buckaplan is expediting the invitation-to-bid process for sub-contractors who receive invitations from general contractors to fulfill the needs of architectural/engineering plans. “Buckaplan is filing a need expressed by construction managers, contractors, sub-contractors, architects, engineers and real estate professionals alike to keep the bidding and fulfillment processes fast,” explained Burke. “These professionals are frequently under tremendous pressure to meet defined deadline and budgetary demands and Buckaplan’s next-day turn-around of copied plans results in significantly faster submission of bids, faster initiation of projects, and faster end results.”

Universal Copy’s Buckaplan.com copying charge of $1/page/plan completely eliminates the traditional printing industry’s tiered pricing structure and processing fees. “Quite simply,” explained Burke, “we charge $1 for each page of any plan regardless of the plan size, quantity needed, or type of project. We have eliminated every variable in the blueprint copying industry including ‘guess-timations’ regarding costs. Using high-quality reprographic equipment, we duplicate plan sizes of 24”x36”, 30”x42”, and even oversized 36” x 48”. We produce high-quality documents working from industry standard .tif, .pdf and .dwf files at a cost of just $1/page/plan with next day UPS delivery.”

Burke explained that, “Before Buckaplan, most building-related professionals depended on their local print shops to duplicate plans at costs that average $3 to $4/page/plan. With Buckaplan, any plan uploaded to the www.Buckaplan.com website by 5:00 p.m. EST will be duplicated and delivered the next day to anywhere within the continental United States.”

NO HIDDEN FEES

“There are no hidden charges, no sign-up fees, no monthly charges, and no file processing fees with Buckaplan,” stated Burke. “The cost is just $1 per page per plan or drawing plus ground delivery fees to anywhere in the U.S.”

Architect Eric Army, principal of sudioMEJA in Edgewood, Rhode Island, commented, “Working with Buckaplan is very simple. We upload blueprints to the Buckaplan.com website and Burke’s team prints and delivers the requested copies the next day. The service has been 100% reliable and dependable for the two years we have worked with the Buckaplan team. We receive the copied plans the next day and we know exactly the cost, $1/page/plan plus delivery charge, and we have done nothing more than upload a file to the Buckaplan team. This expeditious and highly-dependable process allows our boutique architectural firm to focus on our specialty, design.”

Buckaplan client, Amanda Magazzu, office manager with S&L Plumbing and Heating Corp. in Brewster, New York, commented, “The Buckaplan team prints construction plans for projects we bid on, or plans for existing projects. Our need is not quantity, it’s rapid turnaround time and multiple orders on a continuing basis as needed. They fulfill our needs with exceptional speed, and at very affordable prices since Buckaplan is half of price of local area printing shops. Regardless the number of files we submit, we consistently receive the requested copied documents the next day. The service we receive is easy, punctual, and highly affordable.”

Bid coordinator for the general contracting Warwick, Rhode Island-based Iron Construction Group, LLC Melissa Drolet, remarked, “Besides being half the price we typically pay for plans, Buckaplan offers a straight-forward charge per page plus shipping, so I immediately know what the costs will be.” For a recent $9M construction job to build a Wellness & Fitness Center at the University of Rhode Island, Drolet ordered hundreds of pages from Buckaplan. Drolet stated, “We simply uploaded our plans to Buckaplan’s FTP site with our own user name and password.

CHANGING OPERATIONS TO MEET DEMAND

In 2013, Burke and Universal Copy/Buckaplan.com recognized the demanding need of the high-volume copying service so they extended the company’s hours and hired new staff members in 2014. “With the significant increase in orders in 2013,” stated Burke, “we added new staff members, and extended Buckaplan’s duplication service hours to starting at 7:00 a.m. and ending at 7:00 p.m.”

Burke noted that, “These are radical operational tactics for a small print shop such as ours’ to initiate to meet the time-urgent demands of our clients. Our business is built solidly on relationships that we have created with building professionals working on projects across New England. Some of the current projects we are duplicating plans for include Westport YMCA, Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale University, Bridgeport Hospital, Norwalk Hospital and several others.”

To learn more, visit www.Buckaplan.com, contact Brian Burke at 855-282-5275 or email to brian@buckaplan.com or plans@buckaplan.com. Clients can also scan the company’s QR code using a Droid or I-phone.