Homebrew PCBs

Nice!  What laser printer did you use?

Cheers,
Ted

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "onenastyviper"
<oneNastyViper@...> wrote:
>
> Hi guys, sorry that i have not kept up to date with my toner transfer 
> testing but i believe that i have found a great method that seems to 
> work for me quite well.
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> Well, I recently bought a cheapo laminator and disassembled it to see 
> what needed to be done for pcb use. 
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> I just needed to sort out a decent paper, I was going to buy some 
> pressnpeel when i fuond a magazine that was about to be chucked away 
> and i thought why not...
> Well, I printed out a test circuit but some toner was literally 
> hanging off the page and the fuser had one or two 'loop' images from 
> excess toner, failiure until i remembered that the printer was set to 
> darkest '5' and transparencies, so i set these to back to normal and 
> tried another sheet...success, printout great...then, being lazy, i 
> thought about how can i test the transfer properties without having 
> to clean another board...so i scratched at the toner with my 
> fingernail. It released quite easily and it removed the ink from 
> ontop of the magazine paper but did not tear the paper..great i 
> thought. Time for a proper test...
> Printed out another sample, used my laminator and heat gun and 
> attempted to transfer the toner...it worked very well. I could lift 
> the paper from the board leaving 90% of the toner behind without 
> soaking and with soaking, all of the toner remained on the copper.
> The paper works so well that the sheet ends up having a nice paper-
> white image left where the toner was printed onto the magazine page.
> I suppose what i am trying to say (if this email wasn't long enough 
> already) is that if you can cleanly scratch the toner from the paper 
> and it removes only the paper coating *under* the toner then chances 
> are it will work for toner transfer.
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