13 Jan
2017
13 Jan
'17
4:07 p.m.
On 01/13/2017 04:52 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2017-01-13 7:24 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Oh, geez! I'm terrible at documenting my own stuff! I do
have a page on my web site about it.
hack - a - DAY?? It took me about 10 years to go from first
tinkering to a working machine.
Jon
On 01/13/2017 12:16 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
I remember you mentioning on the list before. Would make a
nice hackaday writeup :-)
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.