Homebrew PCBs

If you have good transfers in most areas it is probably not the paper.

Try a laminator or fuser, and make sure your board cleaning procedure is  
perfect.

ST


On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:51:35 +0100, protonceksleeperman  
<protoncek@...> wrote:

> I've been in a store today where they sell HP stuff. Even if this
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> high-gloss laser paper is in their price list, they hardly know it
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> exists. So, they promised me that they will look into it. In the
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> meanwhile they gave me two sample sheets - one HP laserjet tough
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> paper - kind of plastic waterproof one...which turned out bad since
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> most of the toner remained on the sheet. then HP everyday photo
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> paper - useless, since transfer comes out totally smudged. Next one
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> was HP laserjet soft gloss paper. This one is better - toner
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> transfers excellent, sharp, and when i put it into water paper goes
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> off in less than a minute. Remaining last layer (which isn't
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> plastic, since this paper doesn't have high gloss finish) is
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> scrubbed easily with fingers. All would be excellent if a few parts
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> of toner wouldn't keep falling off when scrubbing. I tried from 1 to
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> 5 minutes of ironing, to no avail. I wonder if my iron is really
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> that unlevel...
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> Second thing is you mustn't move iron since this paper doesn't
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> really stick to copper and moving results in smudged transfer and
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> wasted procedure. I think i prepare my board well enough, so that
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> isn't it. so...back to experimenting.