god was not willing. the plotter did indeed break down. We learned something new though from the experience. I was able to easily email the file as a pdf to Service Point where they printed it with-in 30 mins and I picked it up, and dropped it off at the clients just as I planned. Until we can afford a new plotter we'll have to resort to the $3.15 per page charge. I did find out though that I can have those documents printed at any Serice Point, which could be handy. Anyways my late autoCad tutor used always tell that pdf's where the way to print. So this will forcew us to be more patient with how often we print plans. IT'll require shcllepping as well.