I'm using an Older HP 4L Printer.
And What I have found is If you want to print Two Drawings that Must
line up with each other, Print them One at a Time and Position them
so Both "Print in the Same Area of the page".
This way whatever Errors occurs in the First one,
Should also Occur the Exact Same in the Second one.
Hope this Helps.........Gary
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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "cruizzer77" <atlantis7@g...>
wrote:
>
> I am trying to produce my first double-sided board and it is not a
> simple one. Now I have encountered similar problems as Susan some
> posts above. I have four laser and led printers at my disposal, and
> when making single-sided boards never had problems. But now I found
> out that two of them distort the layout so that pads and vias do not
> line up any more on the printed transparency. So I tried two more
> printers I had never used for this before and found that one of them
> has a perfect quality but the heater is obviously a bit too hot and
> warps the transparency slightly. I tried but was not able to squeeze
> the foil flat on the pcb so that some traces were gone after
exposure.
> The fourth printer has almost no distortion but is an older one and
> has a print quality which makes it unusable. How did others solve
this
> problem? I am not planning to buy a new printer, but in case there
is
> a particular model which is good and available used I might look for
> one.
>
> Regards
> Martin
>
> BTW these four printers are Xerox WorkCentre XD102, Lexmark Optra E+
> (both distortion), Brother HL-1230 (heater) and Oki Okipage 4w
> (quality).