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Toner Transfer with Toluene

2004-03-24 by mikezcnc

I read about it and it uses an inkjet paper in Laser printer (and 
then one places the paper ink-side down onto a clean copper board. At 
that time one uses toluene on a cotton ball and gently massages the 
toluene onto the paper which in turn transfers the toner to copper. I 
couldn't resist but try this method but since I didn't have toluene I 
tried the leftover acetone that just keeps oozing out of the can by 
itself.... The results were interesting. Within seconds I got a nice 
image trasferred, all of it and almost uniform. The quality of image 
was poor because I used a very fine SMD image, to challenge the 
method. It was fuzzy and unfocused and I wonder if that would be 
enough to resist the etching...

Has anybody tried with toluene? Maybe toluene behaves differently but 
I personally doubt it. Thsi method was described somwhere in Europe 
and they claimed it was a great method. I wonder if they tried it on 
Power Supply board or RF... or never tried to etch it. From what I 
see it appears to be another urban legend.

Mike

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