please help me understand why 600 is so good. I'm not disputing it,
mind you but it seems kind of at the edge. If I am doing the math
correctly, a 10 mil trace on a 600 DPI device is 6 dots wide. 8 mil
is less than 5 dots. That seems kind of tight to me but maybe its
ok. With my ink jet (1440 dpi) and copier (not sure what its
effective DPI is but its pretty high), I get really clean traces even
at 8 mil. I can get them to transfer but am fighting smearing which I
believe to be due to poor temperature control.
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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Stefan Trethan
<stefan_trethan@g...> wrote:
>
> > And would likely be better off to still just sell the drum
from the
> > 1200 DPI
> > and buy two LJ 6L's or similar anyway. The 600 DPI approaches
the limit
> > of what
> > you can do much of by hand. 1200 may be a little sharper etc,
but a bit
> > of
> > overkill for just homemade PCBs.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> i think 600dpi is sufficient...
>
> st