I've stuck the thick Pulsar paper to regular paper and sent it through my laser printers in the past. However, even on just bond paper my printers shrink the print a little, about 0.5% to 1%. Are you seeing a small even shrinkage, or random major shrinkage? Can you measure a reference print and compensate? (assuming your software has that feature, gEDA's pcb does). Oh - and measure the toner on the pcb, not the toner on the printer, as the rest of the process changes the size a little also. However, I have had cases where "card stock" (100lb, 5x thicker than standard bond) has problems getting through my current laser printer. It depends.
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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Printer "drag shrink"
2009-03-24 by DJ Delorie