Well, it sounds like we're talking about the same thing. 10cmx10cm is pretty typical for me as well... The board pictured on the earlier site post is ~7cmx10cm. I'm using a >5 year old HP laserjet 5L that's been working for me pretty well (2nd genuine HP toner cartridge). I use a paper laminator as the fuser and magazine stock as the transfer medium. I too had somewhat dubious results with the press n peel stuff; but I was using a hand iron at the time. The critical part, as with what you say about the spray photo resist, is to get the stock very clean --otherwise the toner doesn't perform well. When I have dropout problems it's usually due to not cleaning the board properly, not cleaning the board edges when I cut down stock (jagged edges left by the linoleum knife can give the surface an uneven pressing in the laminator), or not getting the board hot enough (too few passes through the laminator). All of this can be corrected quickly, (clean the board and start again). With a little practice you can get it right most of the time with no dropout. One thing that this method won't do is large flooded areas --at least with my printer. I don't think the HP 5L puts down even coverage when covering large surfaces. If I need to have flooded regions, I go through with a staedler marker and touch up the fallout. For quick and dirty boards, you can get a lot of milage out of this method. I understand you've got a printer/photo process that works well for you, but maybe someone who has a different setup might be able to get results they're happy with using a laser printer they already have. -Dal PS I'll be putting a few more photos and fixing the howto text soon. http://wheedal.dyndns.org:8255
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Re: the naked truth about Laser Jet, warts and all !
2003-07-06 by wheedal99
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