The 600dpi Bitmap import I made (see this post), wasn’t successful when I uploaded my gerber files to the PCB house.

So Plan B…. I reduced it to 200DPI, and I think that did the trick. The gerbers were accepted, preview looks fine, so now we wait 2 weeks before we can get our boards.

Bitmaps in PCB silkscreen? Who would have thunk this is possible?!!! After working in Eagle for several years now (I started back in 2007), I just learned about this capability today.

Before, I would painstakingly trace and use polygons to recreate an image or logo… and even then, the results were marginally satisfactory. It also took a lot of time and trial and error to make it look right.

Today I learned the secret is running the ULP script “Import-BMP”. In a few seconds you’re done!

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