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Stefan,

Thanks again. Man, you take a damn good picture! That transfer looks
about a hundred times better than mine did too. On my double-sided
boards, I'm supposedly dealing with 1oz of copper per side. The
transitions look more troublesome than yours. The material is the less
translucent greenish-brown colored stuff too, if that had any affect.

The Staples unit was supposed to have been the same one Pulsar bundles
for PCB transfers (you probably already knew). I don't know if it has
any rubber in it either. I've got a couple long rubber rollers here,
one of which I've mounted by it's axles to a square aluminum bar via
standoffs. That one was from a big Xerox machine. I use it with a drum
finishing thing I made (manual feed between two sets of rollers). I
know nothing about printer/laminator guts, but depending on where and
how the heat source factors into that, I wonder if that idea would be
half as functional as it is fun to think about.

I also wonder if the "wipe the back of the paper down with acetone-
soaked cotton balls" method would work for that. I've always imagined
that process blurring the prints, but it would have the same "squish"
you describe with the rubber.

-George