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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Robin Whittle <rw@...> wrote:
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> Short version: More details of making this transfer paper, including
> using a globally available Elmer's glue. Also, no success using
> "wash-away" Poly Vinyl Alcohol embroidery stabilizer film.
Dissolvo keeps getting mentioned. Look in Photos for the folder "TT + Water Soluble Paper".
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBs/message/27448At 36 cents a page, it doesn't seem worth all the trouble of coating paper. Except at <$20 a gallon for that Elmer's clear washable school glue, it is probably pennies a page.
> I purchased some Poly Vinyl Alcohol film which is intended to be used as
> an embroidery stabilizer. I got it by the metre from Spotlight and
> don't remember exactly which type it was - but it was one of this series:
>
> http://threads.madeira.de/threads/stabilizers-and-non-wovens/wash-away-stabilizers.html
>
> It is far too soft and flimsy to put through a laser printer. Even
> taping one edge to a sheet of card or paper would not work, since it is
> soft and prone to wrinkling.
>
> I couldn't find a way of bonding this to paper to make a transfer film.
> There seems to be no solvent other than water, and water rapidly
> dissolves it. I used a ~150C laminator (an unmodified Lowell LOOL28)
> and it only slightly attached itself to the paper.
Some of us have been printing on fabric by bonding it to freezer paper with an iron or heat press. Freezer paper has a thin coating of plastic that melts to the fabric with a somewhat light bond.
However, I think the waterproof properties of it would make removing the dissolving paper take a lot more time.
Steve Greenfield AE7HD