On Wed Nov 2, 2005 7:06 pm
Mike Young asked,
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In the freebie Eagle, is there a way to print, for toner transfer,
more than one image per page? I'm trying to maximize use of each
toner transfer sheet while keeping the passes through the printer to
a minimum.
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I started doing the following procedure without remembering that you
had said you wished to keep "passes through the printer to a minimum"
In the "Board" module of Eagle if you go into the "Print setup" and
then select the "Page" button, you can set the output to Top, Bottom,
Left, Right for printing rather than the default of Center. The PDF
File ( Files > Toner_Transfer > Eagle "Lite" Multi Output )
"4 Way Prt from Eagle Lite.pdf"
http://f5.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/EIqpQ1mk4SD3FASWsQ6dof_jUbBKC9hT4Wd_begxbaQBGzWT2KCG2DtT9TotG7LQ_YC_UAbTSdAqCdRvMZitd1xQk0N4efY2yIU/Toner_Tran
sfer/Eagle%20%22Lite%22%20Multi%20Output/4%20Way%20Prt%20from%20Eagle%
20Lite.pdf
shows PROPORTIONALLY what the output looks like, this is actually a
Photoshop edited SCAN of a real printed page with everything set for
Landscape Printing. Red lines indicate the 8.5 X 11 sheet size. If
you are doing a double sided board it might help to use the X or Y
axis as a "hinge" on one edge of the board. Even if you cut all four
images from the sheet, I think this is faster than the "cut material
and tape to carrier sheet" way of doing things.