I used paper from the Harbor Freight mailers for a few years with my Brother laser printer (ugh!). The Press 'n Peel Blue tech rep told me that some of the newer printers used hotter temperatures that might cause problems with that product. The catalog paper worked pretty well scotch-taped taped to a sheet of printer paper.
KC
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Piers Goodhew <piers@...> wrote:
>
> This is probably something in the 10% range. What I failed to clearly
> express is that is only vertical (i.e. along the length of the paper)
> horizontally, it seems pretty perfect (I can only hold a draft print
> on normal paper above it with bright light - they line up well across
> but not up and down. Which is why I assume it's due to drag.
>
> Plus the PCB's I have made ∗do∗ line up with the iPod connector which
> is a series of 15, 16mil traces, which is very obviously wrong on this
> one. (Though, I was almost certainly printing it at 90° to the current
> arrangement in the past)
>
> I just got my other half to check the stock's weight and it's 210 gsm,
> so the total was 290, which is 3.6 x the standard weight here ... HP
> sez that 158 is the max (42lbs) so I was almost double.
>
> Didn't somebody say they were using pages out of some catalogue?
>
> PG
>
> On 24/03/2009, at 12:38 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> >
> > I've stuck the thick Pulsar paper to regular paper and sent it through
> > my laser printers in the past. However, even on just bond paper my
> > printers shrink the print a little, about 0.5% to 1%. Are you seeing
> > a small even shrinkage, or random major shrinkage? Can you measure a
> > reference print and compensate? (assuming your software has that
> > feature, gEDA's pcb does). Oh - and measure the toner on the pcb, not
> > the toner on the printer, as the rest of the process changes the size
> > a little also.
> >
> > However, I have had cases where "card stock" (100lb, 5x thicker than
> > standard bond) has problems getting through my current laser printer.
> > It depends.
> >
> >
>