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Ron Videen <[log in to unmask]>
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Jim;

Gerber Scientific built the first vector photo plotters for imaging photo
tools for the PCB industry.
Today the laser photo plotters take the gerber format (x-y data) and convert
it for the raster plotting.


-----Original Message-----
From: West, Jim <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 1:19 PM
Subject: [TN] Why are files called Gerber files.


>Hi everyone,
>
>Maybe a stupid question, but I was wondering where the term Gerber came
from
>and why it's used to name PCB files?
>
>
>Jim West
>Manufacturing Engineer
>
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