Thanks to everyone who replied and discussed this. I went to an
electronics supply house yesterday, but all they had was positive
boards and developer.
Lasers in CDs, DVDs, etc. are toward the red end of the spectrum. They
are currently developing CDs and DVDs that use blue lasers, and will
have much higher density than is available now.
Regards,
JJ
On Friday, Apr 16, 2004, at 16:53 US/Eastern, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Friday 16 April 2004 04:40 pm, dkesterline wrote:
>> This idea of CNC photoploting has got my wheels turning.
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>> Does anyone know what wavelength the laser emitters in laser printers
>> are?
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> I don't know offhand, but you can find a ∗lot∗ of info on those (as
> well as
> the lasers in cdroms, and other lasers) at repairfaq.org, if I'm
> remembering right.
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>> I'm thinking that it might be passible to photoplot directly onto
>> sensitised boards.
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> I thought those required UV? The lasers AFAIK are all IR...
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