Homebrew PCBs

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 09:38:15 +0700, Thomas <teecee@...> wrote:

>
> Any comments about what makes toner darker or lighter, I would imagine  
> that just maybe a Finer powder may
> give better results and of course the actual colour would have something  
> to do with it.
> Thanks
> Thomas


I found there are huge differences in toner.
Trying to refill a EP-S with copier toner resulted in WAY too much toner  
was applied to the magnetic transfer drum. There is a metal strip  
restricting the amount, which normally has plastic spacers to make a small  
gap (maybe .2mm). i filed away the spacers totally to make the gap as  
small as possible, which kind of worked. But the quality of the print is  
not OK and it is lighter too.


In general i have much better TT results with genuine toner, which costs  
no more than refill at ebay. The HP toner is much darker on paper than  
remanufactured one it seems.


ST