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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] The plotter has arrived!

From: "Stefan Trethan" <stefan_trethan@...>
Date: 2006-11-23

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:19:17 +0100, Lez <lez.briddon@...> wrote:

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> Anyclues anyone, I had visions of lovely pcb's by the evening.........


Must be an "over the pond" thing, around here we call them delusions ;-)

If your page is larger than the paper the pen will come off.
Can you see how large the page is supposed to be in your viewer software?

The files are similar to CNC programming, you can "decode" them manually
in the text editor.
Start with a single straight line.

ST