Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] won a plotter on ebay
From: Dan Pickard <dlpwebmail@...>
Date: 2006-11-20
Hello,
I don't have a lot of time so I'll make my two cents quick.
I bought a Roland 1100 xy plotter from ebay. I found that Free CirCAD 98 works great with the plotter without any conversion software. I've been trying everything to get good results using all types of pens but I've found that they all suck.
I've also had the idea to coat a board with dykem and use a scratch pen to remove the dykem before etching. To make a long story short it didn't work. It was very hard to remove the dykem between DIP pads and the plotter scratch shows up as low resolution lines with dykem between them. The pens worked better... for me anyway. Good luck.
Dan
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