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Re:Show HN: PCBs with Full-Color Graphics by DanBC on Thursday July 18, 2019 @04:17AM (#20467840)
These look lovely.

Can you talk a bit about how the PCBs will work in production?

How do component silk screens work? What about fiducial marks? Do machine vision systems (when looking for fiducials) cope with the graphics or do they get confused?

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Re:Show HN: PCBs with Full-Color Graphics by schappim on Thursday July 18, 2019 @04:40AM (#20467939)
>> How do component silk screens work?

Component silk fiducial marks/screens/ident layers (where necessary) are merged into the graphic being applied.

>> do they get confused?

Naturally the milage will vary depending on your Pick and Place. We use a CHM-T48VB, and have yet to have a problem. It would be interesting to test what the limits are...

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