for populating the board, its unnecessary. But I like it even on one-
offs for labling connectors (particularly which wire goes where).
Saves me looking up the schematic/layout.
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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Stefan Trethan
<stefan_trethan@g...> wrote:
>
> I now read you say screen printing is easy to do...
>
> well, why don't you use a soldermask for screenprinting?
> this german company also had this i think.
>
> If the amount of paint is enough it will fill the via, if it is
small
> enough.
>
> I do not like screenprinting... way too much steps..
> (if you only make few boards which you mostly immediately populate
manually
> afterwards both things are not needed, component layout and
soldermask).
>
>
> good luck...
>
> ST