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In article <76416@apple.apple.COM> apn@Apple.COM (Alex Novickis) writes:

John Schuch) writes:>>I, to, have had this problem once in a while but have 
found most >>cameramen pretty darn accurate. Another thing I ALWAYS do is 
include>>a rule in the artwork. Something like this:
>>
>>     |----|----|----|----|----|----|
>>     |                             |
>>     |<-------- 3 INCHES --------->|
>>     |                             |
>>
>>
>With current laser photoplotting technology, WHY ?? whould you want to 
>do reductions ?? LP's can generate things much finer than you can
>ever hope to etch.... I think that's about 4 mil traces with 4 mil
>seperations. And it usually costs me under 10$ for a 10x10" film (OK, 
>well I do need several of them... but still)

I guess I just assumed we were talking about taped PCBs.  There are a lot of 
good reasons for taping 4X and going for reductions on the PMT, but those 
reasons probably vanish if you are sending a file to the repro company.