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Subject: Re: Direct Laser Printing

From: "lemar" <doyle51241@...>
Date: 2010-10-26

Apparently you have worked out the timing issues for the HP controller that wants to see paper moving at certain times. I'm curious what you've come up with.
LeMar

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Tim S" <fla.choreman@...> wrote:
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> I too would be interested in this. I have a pile of old Laserjet II, III and 4 printers that I could dedicate to this purpose. Right now I've taken a LJII and stripped it down to just the fuser and drive stepper. I'm getting the stepper to run from a microprocessor, I have it running from an arduino, but am going to use a small AVR, probably a ATiny2313. I am planning on controlling the fuser lamp with a micro also, to give me adjustable temperature. Hopefully this will be better than the iron method, my results with that are mixed at best.
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> But my ultimate goal would be to print directly onto the board to cut out the paper printing step.
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> If anyone has any experience, it would be helpful to know what worked and what didn't.
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> Tim
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> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "lemar" <doyle51241@> wrote:
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> > Any further activity on this subject?
> > I'm modifying an HP Laserjet 4+ and am trying to work out the timing issues. Just wondering what others are doing.
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> > LeMar
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