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Thanks for the reply. As I suspected vinyl works as a etchant mask. Does anyone have recommendations on an inexpensive vinyl cutter? It seems that most of the Cricut machines use cartridges, which would be of no use for PCB work. Any system that would behave as a printer should work fine as long as it is capable of taking an image (jpeg, png, bitmap, plt, etc) and scaling it accurately. The machines that say "No computer required" look like they would not be appropriate. Most of my PCBs are less than 8 inches in size, but I would not object to buying a larger cutter if the cost was not prohibitive. I have seen some used or refurbished Roland vinyl cutters on ebay, any comments on these?

Bob


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