newbie, how to do etching, what kind of pen?

[rob]

I have had really great results from printing on a tranparency with a
thermal wax printer. The wax is completely opaque, therefore I do not have
the same problems.

Rob


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> From: Michael Buchstaller <buchi at takeonetech.de>
> To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
> Subject: Re: newbie, how to do etching, what kind of pen?
> Date: Thursday, November 02, 2000 6:47 AM
> 
> >I use the photo transfer method with good results. 
> >Either you print the layout on transparency film directly (if you got a
> >laser printer) or you print on paper, go to a copyshop and let it
transfer
> >to a transparency. Photo coated material is only slightly more
expensive,
> >and you can re-use the film you made, which is quite handy.
> 
> I have recently been f**ed up with those transparency films. Some time
ago
> o had a friend working in a pre-press agency who could output my PS files
> on a linotronic, but now he is gone.
> So i have been trying to print on various types of transparencies, but
with the
> laser most of them had not the density that is required. Printing with an
inkjet
> did just suck, too. Then (as a last resort) i printed on a sheet of
drawing paper
> (you know, that one that is partially translucent and used by architects
for their
> blueprints; i am calling it always "Butterbrot-Papier"). Printing with
laser and
> inkjet was both fine, and with slightly increased development time, the
results
> were far superior to everything i have ever gotten from transparencies.
> 
> So i would encourage anybody to give it a try !
> 
> 
> -Michael Buchstaller