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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Making negatives

From: fana cute <fan_nastelroy@...>
Date: 2009-08-21

you may try kicad, it have option to mirror and ploting negative..

--- On Thu, 8/20/09, pr0pert <propert@...> wrote:

From: pr0pert <propert@...>
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Making negatives
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 2:06 PM






 





--- In Homebrew_PCBs@ yahoogroups. com, DJ Delorie <dj@...> wrote:

>

>

> "leon Heller" <leon355@... > writes:

> > DJ reckons they are about the same. I have to use the more expensive

> > JetStar Premium with my HP 5940, the ordinary stuff was OK with the

> > Epson printer I used to use.

>

> IIRC the difference is that premium supports both ink and pigment, the

> other only supports one. My printer happens to be the type that they

> both support, so I see no difference.

>

OK I've ordered some Silkjet media and I'm ready to try this, but I

may have gotten ahead of myself. It seems all the PCB editors

output positive prints. How are you getting a negative print to be

able to use a negative process resist? Is there a way of doing this

with a gerber file? Hidden options for printing? turning the printer

upside down ;)?































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