[sdiy] rising cost of PCB's?

[Jerry Gray-Eskue]

I got the mono laser printer that actually uses toner. From what I have seen
on the Web no Ink Jets will work and I suspected that a LaserJet might not
actually use the plastic based toner. It would be way cool to get a true
color laser working for this, then you could do some nice Color "Silk
Screens" on the board, the Black silk screen is a little hard to seen on FR4
material.

-----Original Message-----
From: David G. Dixon [mailto:dixon at interchange.ubc.ca]
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 1:24 PM
To: 'Jerry Gray-Eskue'; Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: RE: [sdiy] rising cost of PCB's?


> I picked up a new Brother laser to do this with, and see that some people
> are having problems using these. I did see and have used an Advanced print
> option to Reduce Paper Curl OR Improve Toner Set - This seems to have
> control over the Fuser Temperature and I am getting better results in the
> Reduce Paper Curl mode.

I had no luck at all with my new Brother HL-4070CDW colour laserjet.  No
matter how long I pushed with the iron, very little (and in some cases, no)
toner transferred.  I may try your tip, but frankly, I rescued an old,
disused HP2100 from a dusty corner of my lab, and pressed it into pcb
service, and it has been working perfectly.