Today I tried 4, 3, 2, and 1 - I didn't expect them to work as I knew the film wasn't laminated well enough, so I merged the four into one print (one quadrant per size). The print for 1/1 was pretty much solid. The print for 2/2 had moire patterns all over it. The 3/3 and 4/4 were printed well enough to expose the mask reasonably. I reduced my exposure from 5.5 minutes down to 4, but still the traces were wider than the gaps: http://www.delorie.com/pcb/djspirals/ I *think* with some tweaking of the print widths and exposure, I should be able to do 3/3 rules. As usual, the reason behind obtaining such results is to make the 5/5 or 6/6 boards that much more reliable. I'll probably make a test print by hand with specific width/gap sizes in printer pixels to see what the printer's limits are. Also, exposing through a step gauge might help understand what exposure time is best for such fine traces.
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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] laminator, vacuum, 5-mil spirals - report
2009-03-27 by DJ Delorie
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