Homebrew PCBs

On Saturday 22 July 2006 11:01 am, Lez wrote:
> Would putting a conductive item like a sheet of copper clad pcb into a
> laser 'short out' the static charge, or even 'blow up' the printer?

no they don't seem to mind having copper clad run thru them all that much
it just doesn't seem to work very well

heres a test print I did awhile back
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBs/files/Toner_Direct_Print/LaserOnCopper.jpg 

thats a strip of copper foil tape on regular office paper after a trip thru 
an HP laserjet 1200 with normal print settings ,you might be able to tweak
the settings to get better results ,I didn't put much time into experimenting 
with it

and despite all the dire warnings of catastrophic damage the printer was 
unharmed and is still working perfectly to this day :)

Brian
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