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From: "sethkoster" <sethkoster@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:43 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Direct laser printer to PCB?


> I've noticed a lot of discussion of direct inkjet to PCB and I'm
> wondering whether people have already determined that direct laser to
> PCB wouldn't work (modifying available laser printers, not fabbing
> plotters)?

A related technique that was used many years ago for making prototype PCBs
when I worked for Rank-Xerox involved a Xerox flat plate copying system. The
toner image of the artwork on the selenium plate could be transferred
directly to the copper surface, fused and then etched. It might be possible
to do something like it with a laser printer.

Leon