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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Toner Transfer questions...

2003-12-05 by Russell Shaw

Pedro Perez de Ayala Rull wrote:
>     Hi all, I know this answer comes a little bit late, but I haven't seen
> anyone mention it and I have been getting very good results with it. I am
> using Time magazine paper with a laminator. It works PERFECT, I can do
> traces from 3.3 mils wide with 5 mils clearance for small boards, I havent
> tried using such tigh specs for big boards(for which I usually use 8mils
> traces and 8 mils clearance). I have tried many papers and this one is the
> best by far and pretty easy to get. Just one thing is not to feed it
> directly to the printer since it will most probably get stuck, instead i
> hold it on a normal paper with some tape and insert the whole stuff to the
> printer.

Plastic tape against heated rollers is a bad idea is it not?

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