Blueprint

Blueprint

A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842. The traditional white-on-blue appearance of blueprints is a result of the cyanotype process, which allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited number of copies of an original reference. It was widely used for over a century for the reproduction of specification drawings used in construction and industry. Blueprints are characterized by white lines on a blue background, a negative of the original. Color or shades of grey cannot be reproduced.

Blueprint (rapper)

Albert Andrew Shepard, better known by his stage name Blueprint, is an American rapper and record producer from Columbus, Ohio. He is a founder of Weightless Recordings.

blueprint

Noun

1. A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
2. A print produced with this process.

Verb

1. To make a blueprint for.
2. To make a detailed operational plan for; to design or plan out.