Igor2 wrote: > 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 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.
Very interesting...Yes I think I understand what you're describing. I've not tried anything like that; I would like to do so at some point. Perhaps soon. Thanks for the info (everyone else too!) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Cape Coral, FL _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user