Homebrew PCBs

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2a. Avery T-Shirt Transfer Paper
    Posted by: "Jesse Smith" stoi2m1@... stoi2m1
    Date: Wed Nov 8, 2006 7:21 pm ((PST))

Today I bought some Avery Ink Jet T-Shirt Transfer Papaer. For making Iron 
Ons from an ink jet printer. If any of you are thinking about doing this 
dont. When the paper fed through my printer lots of smoke was coming out of 
my printer and I have ran about 10 blank sheets of paper through the 
printer since trying to remove any remainin residue from inside of the 
printer. I guess what happend was the Toner stuck to the paper and then 
transfer from the paper to the "hot roller". And now I think Im going to 
have to take my printer apart and clean it.

I then tried to use this in an ink jet printer and transfer it to the PCB, 
this did tansfer but it transfer plastic in between all of the traces, this 
would be resistive to the copper etch and wont work.

So with all of the said the iron on transfer paper for T-Shirts will not 
work. Lucky me I have 3 kids and can make them some shirts with this paper. 
Too bad I have to clean my Laser Printer now.

Good Luck All,
Jesse

**** REPLY:

Jesse,

I know someone who did that, once, with an old HP LJ4.  Like you, he 
realized his mistake immediately.  He then ran many blank sheets of plain 
paper through the printer, immediately, but printed some small amount on 
each one.  After about 50 or 100 sheets, no more gunk was coming out on the 
paper.  And the printer has been working fine, ever since.

Good luck!

- Tom Gootee

http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg