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Re: FIrst Board a success

2011-09-03 by Ben L

> Me too. LaserStar produces good results with my Canon laser printer. I 
> also use laser printer overhead projector transparency film which is 
> much cheaper. Free even if you know a friendly school or college who has 
> some they don't use any more. OHP film doesn't stay as flat as Laser 
> Star and isn't so good for fine detail work. I've made some PCBs using 
> both today. OHP film was fine for the capacitor stack for a 2.5kV linear 
> amplifer PSU. Big tracks with very wide spaces! But I used LaserStar for 
> the amplifier logic control board layout.

I don't use Laser but what I have hear is that you can have shrinkage due to the heat of the Laser Printing.

Ben

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