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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] the naked truth about Laser Jet

From: Markus Zingg <m.zingg@...>
Date: 2003-07-03

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 09:48:34 +0200, you wrote:

>i believe that it is possible. i don't doubt that.
>
>but with my old laser jet IIID and with a bad cheap toner and with poor
>cheap ohp transparencys i can't to it.
>even on 1mm tracks the center is missing toner. not to talk about ground
>planes...

No surprize with most transparencies. Have you ever tried it with
regular tracing paper? Then, the LjIII series of printers were only
300DPI, so this may also impose a serious limit.

>i think it is possible to make good films with a laser, also with mine.
>but it is also possible to make bad films, with only one bad component
>(film, toner, printer).

The latter is surely not too difficult :-)))

Markus