I've been playing around with different papers and was very surprised to find that regular old ink jet paper actually seemed to have some potential but tended to pop up when I lifted the iron. There was clearly some transfer going on so I modified my technique and after about 2 minutes a side, turned off the iron and left it sitting on the board/paper assembly. once it was cool well below the toner fusing point, I soaked and rubbed. To my delight, I got an excellent transfer. There was almost none of the blotchiness that I had been getting earlier. I attribute this to the paper being porous and soaking up any extra toner. There was very good adhesion, even a good scrubbing with scotchbright didn't budge the resist. I'm really glad because I was annoying my wife by cutting out magazine pages. This was a double sided, 10 mil trace board. 3" x 2.5" so not super large. also, I decided to print the legend (tplace layer for eagle users) and try to transfer that. It worked pretty well, I just ironed it on and peeled it off hot. It wasn't thick enough for a resist but legible. I used a 220 wet-n-dry sandpaper on the board to roughen it up. The paper is Office Depot Inkjet Paper. 24 lb, 92 brightness. item #751381
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TT: getting the toner to stick
2004-03-07 by Phil
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