I think the problem you will have is that as soon as you try to iron it on it will
stick more to the paper than what you are trying to iron it on to.  It is also
very fragile.  A good breeze will blow the toner off and if you move it slightly
it will smudge.  The backing paper for lables works great and is cheep.

Damon Hopkins wrote:

> Russell McMahon wrote:
> >
> > Here's a trick which MAY be useful. Like all the best ideas, I discovered it
> > by accident - in this case while trying to print an envelope short side in.
> >
> > If you cut a sheet of paper to less than a certain length (the exact length
> > will vary with your printer) and feed it to a laser printer, then the feed
> > rollers after the toner deposition stage will (may?) fail to pick it up and
> > the paper will stop in the midst of the printer without having been fused.
> >
> > I have an old HP4L that I normally use and if I feed it a half sheet it sits
> > nicely in the printer until I remove the toner cartridge and take it out.
> > You now have an unfused smudge free copy waiting to be transferred to
> > something else.
> >
> > I haven't tried this for PCB work but I have used it to transfer toner to
> > mugs and then baked them in a domestic oven to produce a surprisingly robust
> > finish.
> > I have also transferred pictures from a scanner to a plastic surface by this
> > method.
> > YMWV
> >
> > This would be very easy for someone to try for PCB purposes - if you do
> > please  let us know the results!
> >
> > You could perhaps get a similar result by depowering the fuser roller (or
> > removing it ?) but this would be much harder to do and much more liable to
> > smudge.
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: marquis DeSade <desade666@YAHOO.COM>
> > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> > Date: Tuesday, 23 May 2000 15:01
> > Subject: Re: [OT] [EE] PC board transfer paper play
> >
> > >hello all,
> > > a trick i learned was to use 60lb paper in a laser
> > >printer, the toner has plastic in it, and heavy bond
> > >ie. 60-120lb paper has clay in it, so you iron it to
> > >the black PCB and then soak in water, the clay and
> > >toner stick leaving your artwork, and the rest falss
> > >off...
> > >cheers, desade
> > >
> > >
> > >--- Brian Kraut <engalt@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
> > >> I would bery strongly advise not putting wax paper
> > >> through your laser printer.
> > >> I don't think that a coating of melted wax on your
> > >> fusion rollers would be a
> > >> very good idea, not to mention that you couldn't
> > >> iron it on without just making
> > >> a waxy mess anyway.
> > >>
> > >> "Randy A." wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Hey, the waxed paper might work.  Although I am
> > >> not sure about what the wax
> > >> > will do to the copper board as far as the ethant
> > >> is concerned.
> > >> >
> > >> > Randy
> > >
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>
> I wonder if it would smudge if you just put a switch on the power supply
> line to the fuser element.. then you could let the paper print manually
> but not fuse it to the paper.. you could print stuff on anything that
> would fit in the printer slot then... It'd probably smudge though..
>
>                 Damon Hopkins