> >> So far for all my home made boards I used PCB's ps output printed on > >> laserjet on special paper which then I put on the board and use an > >> iron to transfer the paint from the paper to the board. I used 2 > >> different laser printers, an Infotec and a HP and with both I had 1:1. Of > >> course this doesn't mean that PostScript is always 1:1 and I guess it > >> depends on the printer and other things, but I think you should > >> give it a try :) > > > > Can you share info on this special paper? I would like to try this. > > > > -Dave > > > > > Someone sells special film for this purpose, and that costs much. I am > not an expert, so I may be wrong on the mechanism, but I think the idea > is that the laser printer doesn't use ink but some sort of polimer that > is > melted on the media. If the media is paper, some of the polimer paint > works off in the paper. If you try your good old non-ball-point pen with > normal paper, it 'drinks' the ink. However, if you use the special film, > it has a shiny surface which won't 'drink' the ink or paint. The trick is > not to buy that special film, but use some shiny paper with similar > surface. This kind of paper is used for magazines and printed spam. It's > usually thicker than normal paper. (I can't translate the name of the > paper, my dictionary lacks this word.) I use underlayer from adhesive sheets for this purpose but there is another problem I won't warn you before when I try to do this frist time I let the iron on the borard for a long time and the printing gets pour out > I could buy some in a local decoration shop, in my experience most > printers can handle ones between 100 and 130 gram/m^2. The critical part > is when the printer tries to feed the paper and it slips. > > Someone reported that he was too lazy to buy such paper and used some > spam > or magazine. I haven't tested this, it may be an urban legend. > > I hope this helps; if my description was not useful enough, I could > snail mail you a sample. > > Igor2 > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user -- watashi |v|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyril Hrubis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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