Homebrew PCBs

Hi, I basically cut a page out from the magazine big enough for 
printing the circuit. I do this by printing it on a normal sheet of 
white paper, printing in the centre of the page helps greatly becuase 
you can cut th magazine paper to size and tape it already knowing where 
it is going to be printed.
As for the magazine page being coated with ink, I am not really sure if 
what is printed is affecting the transfer ability, i.e. the original 
magazine printer ink. I just used random pages.
If you do have some magazine paper to test, print out some sort of 
pattern and attempt to scratch the toner off the page. If it comes off 
cleanly and does not affect the underlying paper too much then chances 
are it will work for toner transfer (I may have said this somewhere 
else but forgot). All I can say is that the magazine paper is very 
similar to that of the Argos catalogue available here in the UK (if 
that helps at all?)

PK

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Mike <k4gmh@...> wrote:
>
> Hello PK,
> 
> Are you taking a page from a magazine and then printing the circuit 
> on the page?  Yes, realize the page has to be fully covered with a 
> magazine ink.  Still it is impressive if I understand what you did.
> 
> Sorry to jump in late, but been away and when came back saw you and 
> others were already down this path.  Did strike me as something I 
> wanted to try until saw you impressive photos.
> 
> Thanks for sharing the info and the pictures.
>