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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Toner Transfer with Toluene
2004-03-24 by mikezcnc
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