Homebrew PCBs

On Wed Nov 2, 2005  7:06 pm
Mike Young asked, 

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In the freebie Eagle, is there a way to print, for toner transfer, 
more than one image per page? I'm trying to maximize use of each 
toner transfer sheet while keeping the passes through the printer to 
a minimum.
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I started doing the following procedure without remembering that you 
had said you wished to keep "passes through the printer to a minimum" 

In the "Board" module of Eagle if you go into the "Print setup" and 
then select the "Page" button, you can set the output to Top, Bottom, 
Left, Right for printing rather than the default of Center. The PDF 
File ( Files > Toner_Transfer > Eagle "Lite" Multi Output )
"4 Way Prt from Eagle Lite.pdf"

http://f5.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/EIqpQ1mk4SD3FASWsQ6dof_jUbBKC9hT4Wd_begx
baQBGzWT2KCG2DtT9TotG7LQ_YC_UAbTSdAqCdRvMZitd1xQk0N4efY2yIU/Toner_Tran
sfer/Eagle%20%22Lite%22%20Multi%20Output/4%20Way%20Prt%20from%20Eagle%
20Lite.pdf 

shows PROPORTIONALLY what the output looks like, this is actually a 
Photoshop edited SCAN of a real printed page with everything set for 
Landscape Printing. Red lines indicate the 8.5 X 11 sheet size. If 
you are doing a double sided board it might help to use the X or Y 
axis as a "hinge"  on one edge of the board. Even if you cut all four 
images from the sheet, I think this is faster than the "cut material 
and tape to carrier sheet" way of doing things.