DuWayne:
Thanks for the detailed account of your heatless toner transfer experiment.
As I suspected, the need or exotic materials is not required.
There are many materials that will dissolve the polymer particles
that make up laser printer toner, and the alcohol mix-in is used primarily
to reduce the effectivity of the solvent so that it softens, but does not completely
distort and weaken the image too much.
Xylene is a good choice because it is relatively inexpensive
and readily available. Same for denatured alcohol, and I think
that ordinary drug store 70% or 90% isopropyl alcohol should
be OK.
The alcohol is also effective in cleaning the bare PCB material.
I plan to try to duplicate your process sometime this week.
Thanks
Roland F. Harriston, PD
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