Why are blue prints blue?


Question:why not green, orange, purple or any other color?

Answers:
"The term "blueprint" was originally derived from the visual aspects of prints made using the contact printing process of cyanotype. It is cyanotype which produces the white lines on blue background which are characteristic of the traditional blueprint."


There not allways Blue!

Ask the Bloke who envented Blue Prints.or Gess!!

Mr JAMES BLUEPRINT..
A blueprint of an architect's building plans or a designer's pattern is a photographic print consisting of white lines on a blue background... In modern usage this word can mean anything with any color.

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