That's good to know. I did notice on long small traces that i would get distortion but chalked this up to my iron being too hot. I tried using a cheap laminator, but i have a brother HL4040cdn, so a stock laminator doesn't get hot enough. I tried standard Reynolds parchment paper also, but I was never able to get any transfer using iron or laminator. I read about the oracal and had some old contact paper to try. It worked better than water soluble paper! I bought some clear stuff from kmart and the results were the best so far. I've since moved on to cheap photo-resist and LOVE it... unfortunately, they are only 6x8 sheets, so wouldn't work in this case.
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "wcasse" <wcasse@...> wrote:
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> i tried the Oracal 651 and got pretty good results, but found that my cheap laminator is not as good as my cheap iron. resolution down to about 7 mil. after running out of Oracal, i ran down to the home depot and picked up ... contact-brand (clear) shelf liner (kmart has a better price than the depot). results were better than any paper i have used so far, but not as good as the Oracal; resolution to about 10 mil. i really like that there is no residue on the toner. i might try parchment paper next.
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> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "timgmorris@" <timgmorris@> wrote:
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> > I have used contact-brand standard shelf liner from kmart ($5 for 12"x24' roll) with good results (8 mil traces). I left comments about the process in the database, if interested...
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