Homebrew PCBs

I'm still using the Brother toner, although I used up the
limited-supply cartridge awhile back.

One slight clarification on the Harbor Freight catalog page
paper...it's actually not non-glossy, in the sense that newsprint
would be, but it's not "slick glossy" like some magazine pages are. 
Harbor Freight must use two diffent printing companies for their
loose-page flyers, and their stapled catalogs.  I did try a truly
non-glossy ad from the newspaper (Sears, I think), and I acheived very
little toner transferred to the PC board.

The results from the Harbor freight stapled catalog pages are much
better than the Press N Peel work with the Brother laser printer. 
However, Press N Peel using a photocopier, even a small Canon copier,
produces the best overall transfers I've been able to make, with one
problem: wrinkling of the plastic media around the steam iron holes. 
I just bought a $5 iron at Goodwill that has very small holes,
compared to the one I had been using, which had trenches leading up to
the holes.  One of the guys in the group, either Myc or Stefan, I
think, went so far as to cut a piece of aluminum the shape of the iron
plate and used JB Weld to attach it to the plate.  No holes at all,
that way.

Cheers, Ted

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "loco_labs" <burning_you@...> wrote:
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "kilocycles" <kilocycles@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Using my Brother HL-2040 Laser printer and its high temperature 
> toner,
> > I've had my best results using pages from the Harbor Freight catalog
> > mailers.  

---snip---
> 
> I have a  Brother HL-2040 as well, im still using the toner that came 
> with the printer, is the toner you use the sample that came with it?
> 
> can you tell me what settings you use and what toner i should buy?
> 
> -Cheers
>