13 Jan
2017
13 Jan
'17
2:52 p.m.
On 2017-01-13 7:24 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 01/13/2017 12:16 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
I remember you mentioning on the list before. Would make a nice hackaday
writeup :-)
--Toby
On 1/13/17 10:05 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
> AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used).
>
>
I have a laser photoplotter I built a long time ago to make circuit
board artwork. It does 1000 x 1000 DPI via a raster process, wrapping
the film around a drum. After moving all the conversion software over
to Linux, it occurred to me that it might not be hard to convert some
raw pixel image format produced by one of the PostScript converters to
the format for my photoplotter. it was about a one hour exercise to get
it working!
Not exactly a one button operation to get images, what with all the
darkroom processing, but I might use it some day. I mostly use it now
to make solder stencils for board manufacturing.
Jon