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Hi

Managed to get some inkjet photo paper today.
There was only HP and Zweckform. I read HP made promblems so i tried
zweckform.
They have a vast selection of Inkjet photo papers, maybe a three meter long
shelf one
kind aside the other.

The differences are hard to find out, there are many different weights.

I went with one which was not too expensive.

Tried it instantly - printed once, let it run through again for additional
fusing (with blank image).

MUCH better than any paper i tried before. But still the surface is made of
fibers, which fuse to the toner and
are hard to get off. I hoped to get one which is clay coated.

One edge of the pcb didn't work well. Toner not fused. Maybe bad prepared
or not constant pressure.

But the rest almost looked like it may have resulted in a useable pcb.


I can easily take the fuser unit out of one of the dead copiers.
Maybe i can use it as a laminator.
With some care i can reuse the temperature controller too (with less care i
will have to build one myself).

What do you think, with a copier fuser, wouldn't i have to pass it through
several times? or very slowly?
I mean it will take quite a while to heat a copper coated pcb.



I really think i still have not the paper you are writing about,
zweckform has a homepage, www.zweckform.com, where it lists all papers.
Maybe in some spare minutes someone knowing the papers may go there and
have a look.
I got the paper No. 2599, to be found at the inkjet papers.

The page is german, at my site, but it seems it autodetects the language.
So i hope yours will be english.

As always, any hints very appreciated

Stefan