Hi, I've thought maybe i might reconsider building a CNC just for drilling, but i worry that the laser printer and toner transfer distortions will make it useless. So i have printed two 150mm x 150mm square boxes on two separate sheets with my HP IIID and compared the two. there is about 1mm distortion. Of course this is not acceptable for cnc drilling. Now, i have the new printer already but still no toner so i don't know how bad the distortion will be with that one. You see, i definitely will not build a CNC drill only to find it useless because of printer distortion. I will not change to inkjet because it does not produce toner transfer, and toner transfer saves me much more time and money than a CNC drill ever will. So, does anyone here use CNC drilling and laser printouts? Or has anybody done more experimenting with laser printer distortion and which models are good? The lexmark M412 did only cost 17eur and the toner will cost 50+ so i might still choose another printer. thanks ST
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[Homebrew_PCBs] Laser printer distortions and cnc drilling
2005-01-10 by Stefan Trethan