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Press'n'Peel problems, and "Hi"

2013-11-18 by Geoff Wood

Hi folks,
New here. I'm Geoff from New Zealand. Have been doing PCBs on and off for maybe 35 years, first by resist-pen, then Bishop Graphics and Riston.
After a lull of many years have now tried Press'n'Peel (blue) with a distinct lack of success.
Printing on Konica-Minolta C353 laser onto dull side of film. Good solid toner coating. Ironing onto nice shiny clean board at various temperatures, for up to 4 minutes. Film comes of leaving incomplete tracks on PCB, some toner and/or some thin remnants of the blue film coating remaining on film.
Don't know if a factor, but film was purchased over 3 years ago, so may be quite old.
Here are some pix of my results ( some of film after pressing, and some of pcb after press. Last pic is 3 patches done at the iondicated temperatures.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dzuddajqn3nibwb/nN5rgfe3lt
Grateful any suggestions.
Also, I see on YouTube others have tried a similar process using glossy photo paper, and soaking off - anybody here had with success with that method ?
cheers
geoff

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