Homebrew PCBs

How are you printing?  I use a CAM job in Eagle.  There is a 
postscript device that you can use.  I just create a job, with 
multiple sections...once for each layer.  I give names to each output 
layer like "ps_mc_brd15_sd1m.ps".  To me, this filename means "My 15th 
attempt to lay out the Magne Charger Adaptor board, side 1, mirror 
image, output to postscript device." In the creation of each "section" 
in a CAM "job" (Eagle terminology) I get to select exactly which 
layers are "active" for that section. So, this means I have exactly as 
many section in my CAM job, as I have layers. Since I barely need 
two...this makes for at most two postscript files for me.

I then print these to my NON-Postscript capable HP-5L LaserJet using 
Ghostscript. A Freeware Postscript processor. I run this on Windows 
XP.  It works great.  The dimensions come out perfect. 

Jim


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "adastra_2001" 
<adastra_2001@...> wrote:
>
> I tried Eagle, I did a scematic in it then transfered it to the PCB 
> program. I didnt like it as much as the program PCB express 
provides. 
> But I could live with it. The one problem i could not figure out 
(not 
> that I killed myself trying to fix it) when I printed a PC pattern, 
it 
> printed parts outlines also, making the board pattern useless. 
Anyone 
> have an answer for what was wrong?
>