George,
If you get the toner just right (very light, really), I believe you
can apply as much pressure as you wish and not worry about spreading
too much.
I am planning to make a few boards in the next few weeks. I'll
probably try the paper instead of transparency again. I have always
used transparency paper until I ran out of it. The board I made last
week was with the Jetprint Multiproject paper from Wal-mart. It seemed
to work OK.
Kenny
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "soffee83" <soffee83@y...> wrote:
> I've coincidentally lightened the contrast too on my LaserJet 6L. I
> had a minor blurred trace problem too, but have moved to lighter
> pressure like some of you guys, and the prints are plenty dark even
> with it up a notch. It seems like nice lite or medium pressure,
moving
> around the board a lot and sort of focusing on the small pointed end
> of the iron doesn't have many ill affects, even with much longer
> overall time.