Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Lez <lez.briddon@...> wrote:
>
> On 10/05/06, Andrew <andrewm1973@...> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah - I had an Okimate model 10 themal
> > printer on an amiga WAY back.  Did colour
> > that was just considered amazing at the
> > time.
> 
> Thats the one I had, I could even print onto
> plastic bags with it, it was a great machine,
> I had a BW version before that I think it was
> a brother HL5, apart from the low dpi they
> would be ideal pcb printers with those wax
> ribbons.
>

Still think copper may be hard to heat up enough.

I will try as soon as I find my PN-60 in a box
somewhere.

I never tried printing onto plastic bags - but
I disproved the the primera advertising that
you could "print onto anything you can feed
into them" when I tried sandpaper.  600 grit
was passable - but anything coarser didn't
work :D