heat press transfer - cheap anti-stick paper alternative: baking paper
2007-07-28 by michael_haberler
here's an idea for laser toner transfer - it's not a "process" (yet) - maybe somebody gives it a try: Being a cook, I have "Backpapier" (baking paper) in the kitchen, which is heat-resistant anti-stick coated paper. It's very thin and robust. I thought the "anti-stick" feature would work with laser toner as well, not just cookie doe - and it does. The toner comes off easily from the paper when ironing it to metal. I dont have a PCB or pre-etching liquids around here right now, so I tried to transfer a PCB design with a iron onto a hard disk platter I had lying around. The paper comes right off when the metal with the paper is thrown into water. I havent learned the process of direct transfer yet, as for heat and duration, but results look promising - some places of the paper had the toner completely removed and transferred to the platter. The paper comes on a roll and needs to be cut into sheets. These dont feed easily into a laser printer directly, but it's very thin - so I glued a patch of that paper to a normal A4 paper sheet - that is strong enough to keep the baking paper in shape for the printing process. Then I put it in the manual feeder - voila. I'll cut a few sheets and put them in a thick book - let's see if they come out flat. But the glue trick is good enough. This is the paper I used - available in every supermarket: http://www.toppits.de/de/sortiment/back-profis/back-papier/index.html I'd be interested to hear what other cooks report ;-) -Michael