Founded in 1948 in the basement of Mary Battle's Hall County home, Gainesville Whiteprint has proudly served the imaging needs of planners and architects for more than a half-century of building in the region.  In the 1940's, executive vice-president of First Federal Savings, Buford Battle, was told of a local need for a service to provide blueline prints in Gainesville.  Battle bought a used Ozalid ammonia development blueprint machine, which he set up in the family's basement.  His wife, Mary, learned to operate it, and continued to run the business out of her house for the next three decades.  Mary worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the plans for Lake Lanier, and helped provide blueprints for the wave of growth brought on by the poultry industry in the 1950's and 1960's. 

As one of the oldest providers of blueprint documentation in the Southeast, Gainesville Whiteprint has been central to the growth in Hall County, developing lasting relationships with architects, surveyors, and builders who have helped make Northeast Georgia the thriving commercial and residential region it is today.

In 1983, Mary's son Tracy joined the business, and the company was finally moved out of the family home and into an office on Spring Street, near Brenau University.  Gainesville Whiteprint expanded to provide drafting and blueline printing equipment and supplies.  Shortly thereafter, manual drafting gave way to computer-assisted drafting, or CAD. 

After Mary's death in 1995, her son Al joined the business.  Together, Tracy and Al pooled their assets and purchased the company's present Bradford Street building, a former office supply store.  There they have offered myriad, diverse services and products, from topographical maps and trade show displays to large and small format black and white and full color printing.  Since 1995, the company has changed gears dramatically, aligning itself with the Association of General Contractors of America's Georgia Branch.  Gainesville Whiteprint also houses the Northeast Georgia location of the AGC Builder's Exchange planroom.  In addition, the Battle brothers started a virtual planroom business known as "The Internet Planroom."  After 5 years of establishing a new way to view building plans and specifications online, the Internet Planroom merged with the Cincinnati, Ohio based Construction Software Techonolgies, Inc.  This expanded on the foundation established by the Battle brothers and created a web site named iSqFt.  In 2004, iSqFt ranked 50th in the Fortune500 fastest growing companies, with a four year annual sales growth of 496%.  Gainesville Whiteprint looks to expand its services as technology continues to change the face of the imaging industry.

Gainesville Whiteprint, a local institution since 1948, continues to play an integral role in the growth of Northeast Georgia.

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