Homebrew PCBs

Uh, yeah, but the entire point of my post is that the direct printing  
is strangely smeared - that's what the pictures are of. Interested to  
see if it's just a mac thing, or a me thing.

PG

On 06/09/2009, at 10:04 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:

> Piers,
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> Why are you creating a pdf ?   You can print directly from eagle.
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> --- On Sun, 9/6/09, Piers Goodhew <piers@...> wrote:
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> From: Piers Goodhew <piers@...>
> Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Eagle (Mac) print quality
> To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 11:36 AM
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> On 05/09/2009, at 7:06 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
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> > Interesting problem.
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> > Try loading the eagle PDF into inkscape and have a look at it.
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> Well, if it looks fine in Illustrator (and Preview) I'm pretty
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> confident the PDF does not have whatever it is that the direct to-
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> printer. What I did notice only when I'd uploaded the images (made
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> much more obvious by the scanner's auto-sharpen) is that every fill is
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> offset a little to the lower left to the outlines ...
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> I did try eagle -> PDF -> some other app -> Print and ... the smear is
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> gone, although something else has happened to drill holes - I'm lucky
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> enough to have Illustrator, I think I'll be sticking to that route!
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> > I make solder paste stencils by printing the tcream layer in eagle.
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> > Next I load it into inkscape and then switch to the outline view.
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> > The files is saved as a SVG and then cut on a critcut machine.
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> > A PCB like the one in your example can be easily cut. I am still
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> > working on finer pitch parts like TQFP.
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> That would be nice, but it also etched just fine, my first flirtation
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> with 10mil traces and running things under SMD parts. Infuriatingly, i
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> managed to break a trace with the drill chuck ...
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