How do i print a gerber file

[flonkus]

Hello and thanks for this nice forum. I am very interested to in metal detectors and construction. This forum seem to have allot of nice projects for me i can construct. 'i have a question about the gerber files, i still totatly new to that format. What i want is to get a layout for circuit boards printed on paper with laser printer, and use acetone to transfer it to the copper board. Done it a few times and it works fine. But how do i print the gerber files? and what of the layers i should use?. I downloaded gerbview for linux, so i can open the different layers, but, maybe you people know a easy way doing this?

[Qiaozhi]

Hello and thanks for this nice forum. I am very interested to in metal detectors and construction. This forum seem to have allot of nice projects for me i can construct. 'i have a question about the gerber files, i still totatly new to that format. What i want is to get a layout for circuit boards printed on paper with laser printer, and use acetone to transfer it to the copper board. Done it a few times and it works fine. But how do i print the gerber files? and what of the layers i should use?. I downloaded gerbview for linux, so i can open the different layers, but, maybe you people know a easy way doing this?

You can print out the Gerber files from gerbview, but I'm not sure they will be the correct size for you to manually create a PCB. Also, please be aware that many of the projects require plated-through holes that you cannot do at home. Better options are to send the Gerber files to JLCPCB, or check whether https://diydetector.co.uk/store/index.php have boards available.

[flonkus]

Ok, thanks for answering. Yeah i guessed to it could be difficult. But good idea send it for printing. Thanks again.

[flonkus]

Still looking arround the forum for detectors that allso has a print able layout (single sided copper, black and white) for self made pcb, use to be in pdf format i think. Many pages to go through. But i try check each of them. Still did not success to open the whole pcb files in linux Gerbview.