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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, David McNab <rebirth@...> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 15:42 +0000, niponcio wrote:
> > What I do is peel off the labels and then print on the shiny side of
> > the sheet (where the labels were).
>
> I tried it just now, with a piece of board off-cut (not cleaned, only
> sanded briefly and half-heartedly with 600 density wet'n'dry).
>
> Result - after just 2 passes through laminator, I have a spotlessly
> perfect transfer, and the paper just falls off. And the process takes
> less than a tenth the time that I was spending with the old painful
> print-onto-card, soak, rub, soak, peel-with-tape, soak, rub,
> pray-I-don't-damage-toner process.
>
> Niponcio, you're a genius.
>
> (Now, if only I'd seen that post yesterday, before I put in all those
> hours producing 24 boards. ∗%$&%#! @#!@∗!^&#)
Now this is where a Wiki can be a -very- good thing, as the laser
label backing trick is quite old but rarely gets mentioned.
Steve Greenfield