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Hey all - my first post after doing lots of searches here. I'm a long
time electronics tinkerer (20+ years) but I haven't made too many pc
boards myself in that time and of those, most were done by hand. I
gave the toner transfer system a try when it first came out but wasn't
impressed. Back then I was using an iron to do the transferring and
like many people today I got decent results only when the board was
smaller than the iron. Even still, I didn't trust it to reliably make
tracks thin enough to run between DIP pads, much less do 0.5mm pitch
SMT devices, etc. Anyway, the new TTS paper made by Pulsar, especially
when applied with their so-called TIA Laminator (aka - GBC HeatSeal
H210), can supposedly lay down tracks and pads tighter than 8/8 design
rule reliably. Does anyone here have any experience to confirm or
refute this?