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Exactly what I have found. Do you have a brand name for the gel-coat 
transparency film?
Getting it right first time every time would ease a lot of the pain at $2 
per sheet. I hate to dump the transparency sheets I already have but if you 
know something that Really Works with ink jet, I'll try it. Laser toner 
isn't exactly free, either.
--
Phil M.

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From: "cunningfellow" <andrewm1973@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:31 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: printer


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>> Phil wrote:
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>> <SNIP lots about lasers and tranny film>
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> If using a laser then vellum/drafting-film.
> Lasers a transperency material don't work
> well together.
>
> Lasers do excellent black for thin lines but
> unless you have a new-car-priced laser then
> large black areas will be faded.
>
> Any cheap inkjet will give better results
> than any cheap laser for large black areas.
> The inkjet will also have better dimensionl
> accuracy / less-distortion.
>
> Now I have lost access to the fantastic
> Tektronix laser I had at work I have switched
> to using a random canon inkjet on gelatine
> coated inkjet transparencies.
>
> Gives almost as good a result with $100 worth
> of printer than a $30K+ printer did.  Only
> downside is that the transparencies cost $2
> a sheet rather than $0.30 a sheet.  So I am
> frugal with them and do a test print on paper
> and then cut out a small rectangle of tranny
> to tape over the test print.
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