I dont have an inkjet printer so im suck with this poo now.
Anyway. i have to ask the question, does ant of the other stuff in staples work well ?
I got some cheep "Tesco's Blue Stripe" Photo Glossy Paper, you know the value stuff, and it does work well, but only for board with wide spacings , say 15 - 20 mil, as it leaves small stripes of paper in between the finer tracks. I have also used the stuff from the maplin catalogue, that works quite well, but still not so good on the finer tracks. I got this Staples stuff in the hope that it would make a great board as i am trying to make a single sided board that's need tracks of 10 mil and spacing of 10 mil, each time i have made this board i have had to get a knife and cut to separate some tracks, Its getting a pain, so hopefully somebody can shout out to me "he use this paper its great stuff" other wise its off to Maplin this weekend to get kitted up for UV.
Gary
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From: Stefan Trethan <
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To:
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.comSent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:18:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] UK Staples , Photoo Basic Glossy, is Poo and sticks like it too
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:03:12 +0100, Gary Hoyles <
dimlow_uk@...>
wrote:
> OK, with all the hype i have heard about this paper i went and got
> some today from my local Staples store.
> Just tried it and its poo. It printed just fine in the laser and
> looked like it was going to be good. But as soon as the iron touched
> it, it stuck to the iron. Not a good sign! So i placed some normal
> paper on top and continued to iron, them dumped it in some warm
> water. Five minutes later i come back to the water soaked board and
> try to pull some of the paper off and its stuck solid to the board,
> not just where the toner is but, also the paper is stuck solid. I
> soaked it some more and found that there is a plastic coating on the
> back of the paper and managed to pull that off. and soaked some more.
> 15 minutes later is still stuck like poo to a blanket! In fact i
> think i'm going to have to throw out this bit of copper clad board
> because i just cant get the stuff off.
> Well i guess the paper we have here in the UK is not the same as the
> stuff they sell in the staples in the US.
> Has anyone else tried this stuff in the UK ?
> Gary
I have a box of the same poo ;-)
It must be some type of plastic coating.
Surprisingly it does go through the printer allright.
It works very well to make cover sheets for printed out manuals and stuff,
but that's about all ;-)
ST
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