Has any one had any luck in using a plotter to scribe through the etch resist to make a PCB? I have a HP 7440 plotter I have modified with a scribe head, I down loaded a routine suggested on this group and tried it on my Eagle layout. It seems to create the files, but when I send them to the plotter the scribe just goes to the upper left corner of the board, makes noises and bounces the scribe up and down. I suspect it is trying to get to some un-reachable portion and that is the furthest it can get to. I see where others have used this successfully, is there some other modifications to the softweare or plotter that needs to be made?
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Using a plotter to scribe bboards
2005-06-05 by idaho_huckleberry