There is an easy, solid way to do this:

1. Make sure your schematics are no larger than B-sizes reduced to legal
size paper, or make them all A-sized sheets. At this scale, the 
technician does
not have to use a magnifying glass to follow a schematic.

To ANYONE who makes schematic diagrams C-sizes or larger, SHAME on you.

2. Take several schematic sets to Kinkos, and have the sheets laminated. The
thinnest lamination is fine, normally what is known as "MENU SIZES"
(restaurants do this all the time). Be sure to get the CLEAR, not 
MATTED, surface.

3. Punch holes in the corners and use round keyrings to allow easy 
flipping of the
pages.

Your technicians will love you forever. The schematics can take coffee, 
solder blobs,
scribbled notes, and flux, and it can be washed right off. Just like at 
the restaurant.

--Bob Axtell


>most people testing or repairing or working on your board will be using a 
>paper copy of your schematic. A computer and monitor is a lot of bulk on a 
>workbench and takes up too much valuable space from a manufacturing 
>technician's point of work.
>Try reading your schematic through the bottom of a drinking glass, because 
>after you place a few too-many pc boards on those brand-new pages or get it 
>folded once or twice, your nice crisp lines are going to look rather 
>tattered  ;-/
>
>  
>


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