[sdiy] PCBs from old films (USA)

[Dave Manley]

Here are two links for scanning services, the first has price info:

http://www.snowcrest.net/westwind/pricelst.html
http://www.mhtest.com/scanning.shtml

I suppose if you were really a DIYer, you'd use your own scanner and 
write some software. ;-)

-Dave


John Blacet wrote:
> --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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