[sdiy] PCBs from old films (USA)

[John Blacet]

--Here's some inffo from one place I use...

We do generate films- I believe with older films, we need them converted
into gerber data so that we can tool the job according to our production
and print films for Excel.  We have a company we can send older films to
for scanning or we can give you their name and number and you can have
them generated.

Best,

Mary Beth Saltsman
Sales Associate
Excel Electrocircuit, Inc.
50 Northpointe Dr
Orion, MI 48359
www.excelelectro.com



> John Blacet wrote:
>> --Have you talked to any board houses?
>>
>> As far as I know, they all still use film in the end...
>>
>>
>>>>> Does anyone know a board house in the USA (extra points for midwest
>>>>> :^)
>>>>> that can produce PCBs from film artwork ?   Price is no
>>>>> object...
>>>
>>> Harry,
>>>
>>> What do you meen by film artwork?
>>>
>>> Im sure i dont understand you correctly, but couldnt any 2 colour image
>>> be
>>> etched or, indeed, milled, onto pcb material with
>>> relative ease?
>>>
>
> I just went and spoke with the cad guys here at work and they said it
> shouldn't be a problem with the following caveats for the pcb house:
>
> 1. they support the complexity of the board (number layers, trace width,
> etc)
> 2. the films have registration marks they can work with.
>
> Our cad guys said the industry is starting to support direct laser
> imaging, but the majority is still film based.
>
> -Dave
>
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-- 
John Blacet