Homebrew PCBs

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>Obviously I need to do something differently; should I start by trying a
>different printer?
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I'd say yes, I have only had a few goes myself, I picked up an old hp4l 
from a car boot sale(bring your own yard sale) and had good transfer 
first time with it with some asda(Walmart) georgia pacific inkjet paper 
and the wifes iron which I think is also about 1200 watt

just bought a cheap laminator(aldi) but not tried it yet.