Does Captains sell print on demand charts?
Yes, all NOAA charts in US waters are available in print-on-demand (POD) except for a few small craft chart folios that are only available as government-lithographed charts. NGA (formerly Defence Mapping Agency) charts (covering mostly waters outside the US) are only available as lithographed charts or photo-reproductions of same. There is no updating service for NGA charts except to get summaries of corrections per chart number on the NGA web site, and make the corrections yourself. British Admiralty charts are only available as lithogrpahed charts, but we are required to hand-correct each Admiralty chart up to date before it is delivered to a customer. Canadian charts are generally printed in a print-on-demand process by the Canadian Government in Ottawa so that the charts they ship to agents like Captains are corrected to the ship date, but they do not make print-on-demand available to chart agents like Captain’s to be able to print on the agent’s premises. Summaries of corrections
