In a message dated 9/8/2005 4:39:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
lcdpublishing@... writes:
Wait till you read the next message
Yes, I did.
All this is "good training," per the cadre at Fort Polk in 1966. Did you
use a laser-printer? I have heard (well, READ!) that some of those printers
become "creative" when asked to print a given size image. My INK-JET (not any
good for toner images, of course) does at least 5% smaller (or was it
larger?) than a specified size. But I am an OLD Flatulent with about $1000 worth of
Bishop Graphics "stick-ons" still in a drawer. They are most long-past
their "good until..." dates, but most still work fine, anyway. One uses an
Xacto-knife to pick-off the pads and IC patterns, sticks 'em to grid-paper VERY
carefully, then "wires up" with precision black tape (I have only several 0.05"
to 0.25" widths, though they are (were?) made by DOZENS of widths, and at
least three colors, both "mylar" and "crepe black." This was what we OLD GUYS
did before puters could "draw" a PCB for us "on-screen". Just getting it
photo-printable is the problem. But the 2X "art" I did could be photographed
by the "PC House" to make a 1X negative, and the size was PERFECT.
I realize most of their customers now just bring in a 3½ floppy taped to a
purchase-order, and four-layer with gold and tin-plating is routine. But it's
been some years since I did a 100-count order of a PTH double-side, so I
don't even have a CLUE what-all is done, nowadays! As was bragged in that old
spiritual, "Free at last, free at last! Thank Gawd-Amighty, we free at
last!" Jan Rowland
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