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- From: sbbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen B. Brown)
- Subject: Re: Decals via Laser Printer
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.203519.15383@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:35:19 GMT
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- In article <19921120140049.Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu> Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu (Roger Wilfong) writes:
- >There is laser -> transfer process available for making PC board resist
- >patterns using a laser printer. I've got something on it at home that I've
- >been looking for since this was originally posted.
- >
- >Going from memory, it used special paper/film that you run through a copier
- >or a laser printer. You do some intermediate steps that produce something
- >that can be dry transfered to a copper clad circuit board. The 'kit' came
- >with enough material to make several sheets of transfers and they worked out
- >to about $1.50-$2.50 a sheet. I just have a sales sheet/order blank for it
- >and have not actually used it, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
-
- I've got something similar for making PC boards. It's intended for photocopy
- machines, but I expect it would also work in a laser printer. These are
- just sheets of a heat resistant plastic, which can take the heat of
- the fusing process. Having photocopied a pattern onto the plastic, you
- turn it over, put it on your pc board, and run over with a hot iron.
- This transfers the toner onto the pc board. Then you etch the board--the
- toner is the resist. You can re-use the plastic sheets, once the toner
- has been ironed off.
-
- There are at least two complications for using this for decorating rockets.
- First, ironing the pattern onto a body tube or fin might be a challenge.
- Second, the pattern is reversed, so you'ld need to reverse it before
- printing it onto the plastic sheet.
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- Steve Brown, N8HFI sbbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
- Chief Engineer, The Ohio State University Radio Observatory ("Big Ear")
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