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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] laser printing onto silkscreen material

2007-11-21 by Herbert E. Plett

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You cannot laser print the screen because it has to be
tensed on the frame and it will surely melt in the printer
anyway and you can't print on metal.
I think there is a chance if you TT the negative image to
the screen if you can manage the temperatures.
The usual plastic screen is made of nylon that melts (like
ice into water) at abt. 205C (400F) and the toner softens
(does not totally melt) at 180C (356F). So there is a
chance...
If you use a metal screen, then usual TT should work fine,
very good indeed.


--- Gus S Calabrese <agscal@...> wrote:

> I apologize for causing problems with linking.
> ( Although it is not obvious that there would be a
> linking problem )
> 
> Silkscreening means putting a mask on a silkscreen and
> squeezing ink
> through it to reproduce an image.
> If I can somehow use a laser to print to the screen and
> then I squeeze
> ink through the screen  .... am I not silkscreening *
> 
> Gus Calabrese



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