Homebrew PCBs

I just looked it up.. WhiteTRF?  Sounds like exactly what I wanted.  Thanks
Harvey!

 

From: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 9:22 PM
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Silkscreening

 

  

On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:33:12 -0700, you wrote:

>I think we touched on this subject before, but now that I've got some
boards
>done I'm wanting to revisit it. I would like to silkscreen the parts
>placement patterns onto the back side of my boards here.. just to aid in
>placement and also for looks. I am wondering if someone back in the early
>1970s would have had a way to do this, short of drawing it out by hand. I'm
>assuming photocopiers existed at the time. could you do a toner transfer to
>the PCB fiberglass? I"ve not attempted it yet. 

it works. toner transfer is fine.
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>I'd really love to have the parts placement in white, but of course, that's
>not available. I could do yellow, I suppose, assuming the transfer process
>would work. Other ways I've thought of are manually cutting out the
>patterns (uggggh) with an xacto knife and then just keeping those templates
>for future use.
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Pulsar has white film that does silk screen.

Harvey

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>And then there's real silkscreening.. but I just can't seem to wrap my head
>around the process of making the screens.
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>Apparently there are now (very expensive) laser printers out there that
>actually print true white. 
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>Thoughts, ideas?
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>Brad
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