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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Thermal Transfer Printer

2007-01-22 by Stefan Trethan

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:09:04 +0100, Martin Klingensmith  
<martin@...> wrote:

> The Tektronix Phaser printers were an interesting breed. They basically
> gave away the printer, if you were willing to pay $35 an ounce for wax
> (one each CMYK)
> It continually wasted the wax and smelled like melted crayons. Great
> printer :-)
> To be on-topic: The paper path was not straight.
> --
> Martin K


Actually, the phaser wax printers can be used to make PCBs.
Some long while ago someone posted how to do it. The key is to use very  
thin PCB stock then it will work without modification. The wax works  
directly as resist.


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