Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan"
<stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
>
> 
> I don't understand why you don't simply go to the next office supply
> store  
> any buy clay coated paper _off the shelf_?
> Many Inkjet papers are clay coated.
> 
> I'm sure the sheets sold at $1.46 each are no better than the inkjet 
> paper  
> sold at $0.10 a sheet.
> 
> 
> ST

I don't use inkjet paper because it's a very good way to wreck your
laser printer. I don't have one at the moment because I have three
inkjets (one office type printer modified for refills for massive
amounts of printing, a photo printer with OEM dyebased ink for photos,
and one photo printer that I'm experimenting with pigment ink refills)
and don't have room for it, so I run off my copies at Staples on a
copier. I don't really do enough etching to justify buying one when I
can get 2,000+ copies for the price of one printer (without buying
refills, too!) So the paper I buy has to say laser compatible, as most
inkjet paper will melt/buckle/otherwise jam up and I don't feel like
having to explain why a $50,000 machine just got damaged. Press'n'Peel
and the pulsar.gs paper are both designed specifically for laser tech
(but even Press'n'Peel Blue, which is home-laser compatible, will
completely melt in many color copiers).

Right now I use HP Glossy Photo Paper for LASER printers, which makes
a nice transfer, but is difficult to remove. Even if I had my own
laser printer, I doubt I'd run inkjet paper through it. I just don't
think it's a good idea - I've seen too many other people wind up
having their printers damaged because they used inkjet to try to print
a photo on a laser 'because it's photo paper!', though I believe the
issue is much more of a problem with color lasers than small consumer
grade black and white ones.