> <snop>
>>>      The only complaint I've had about Autotrax was
>>>      the 'crippled' output to printers (as compared to
>>>      the high quality output to plotters).  I've overcome
>>>      this by using a shareware package that converts
>>>      HPGL to direct printer output.
>>>      On a laser printer the result is camera-ready copy.
>
>I was reading some newsgroups that suggested lasers were bad gnus for pcb
>artwork - they are fine in one dimension, but owing to the high possibility
>of roller slippage, bad in the other.   You could probably compensate on a
>s/s board, but d/s or multilayer?
>
>MikeS
><mikesmith_oz@relaymail.net>

If your dimensions are not super-critical and your board is not large,
laser printing an enlarged copy -- at least 2X -- and asking your service
bureau to photo-reduce it when making the film tool is quite feasible. My
layout package allows me to print a ruler along the edges. This makes it
possible to measure any differential between the horizontal and vertical
scales, and to get at least one of them exactly right, by instructing the
service bureau to "reduce this dimension to exactly XX inches."

Reg Neale