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Production date codes on boards

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Many adafruit products have a month/year code silkscreened onto them in a stencil font.

What is this date code thing called?

Do you add it in Eagle?

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Re: Production date codes on boards

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It's called a date code.

Sometimes you add it explicitly to your silkscreen layer, but sometimes the board house will add it for you as part of their own bookkeeping.

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Re: Production date codes on boards

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is there some eagle plugin that does that stencil font?

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I don't know of one. It's easier to add that kind of thing as a BMP image.

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