here's an idea for laser toner transfer - it's not a "process" (yet) -
maybe somebody gives it a try:
Being a cook, I have "Backpapier" (baking paper) in the kitchen, which
is heat-resistant anti-stick coated paper. It's very thin and robust.
I thought the "anti-stick" feature would work with laser toner as
well, not just cookie doe - and it does. The toner comes off easily
from the paper when ironing it to metal.
I dont have a PCB or pre-etching liquids around here right now, so I
tried to transfer a PCB design with a iron onto a hard disk platter I
had lying around.
The paper comes right off when the metal with the paper is thrown into
water. I havent learned the process of direct transfer yet, as for
heat and duration, but results look promising - some places of the
paper had the toner completely removed and transferred to the platter.
The paper comes on a roll and needs to be cut into sheets. These dont
feed easily into a laser printer directly, but it's very thin - so I
glued a patch of that paper to a normal A4 paper sheet - that is
strong enough to keep the baking paper in shape for the printing
process. Then I put it in the manual feeder - voila.
I'll cut a few sheets and put them in a thick book - let's see if they
come out flat. But the glue trick is good enough.
This is the paper I used - available in every supermarket:
http://www.toppits.de/de/sortiment/back-profis/back-papier/index.htmlI'd be interested to hear what other cooks report ;-)
-Michael