Transfer Paper for etching PCB?

[crawler486]

I read sometime ago that you can use paper from magazine
as an alternative to using Press N Peel types.
If this is true, what kind of paper from magazines can I use?

[Mark Hammer]

I don't know about magazine paper, but you can use glossy photo paper for laser printers quite nicely.  The resolution will not be as high as Press-n-peel but 90% of the layout you see posted around should transfer more than adequately.  Personally, I buy this paper stock at an office supply chain in Canada for 20 cents a sheet in small quantities.  Anywhere that will take your family photo and blow it up to 8.5" x 11", or A4, letter, or whatever the size is called, on glossy stock will have this paper.

I have a very long posting here, with an accompanying long thread, about this method.  Dig around in the archives.  You can also find it in the "open forum" section at Ampage.

[zener]

Transparency film (known here as acetate) printed with any toner-based printer or a photcopying machine works well, too. I think it's cheap also.

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

as an alternative to using Press N Peel types.
If this is true, what kind of paper from magazines can I use?

If you examine shiny magazine paper closely (by scratching with a razor blade, say) you will find that ther is a layer of fine clay squashed into the surface of some. The opposite of newspaper, which is all fiber.
The idea is, that his clay sticks to the toner, and the toner sticks to the copper, and the paper is slowly softened and carefully rubbed away from the back, so the toner and some clay is left on the pcb.
Yes, it will take TOO MUCH experimwnting, but it is cheap, and many claim to have success! Good luck!

http://www.webelectricmagazine.com/98/3/etch.htm

http://orca.st.usm.edu/~jmneal/artwork.htm

http://www.solarbotics.net/library/techniques/buildpcb_trnsfr.html

http://www.geocities.com/g_wellwood/electronics/pcb.html

http://members.tripod.com/AMN92/PC_Board_Fabrication.htm

[crawler486]

Cool! Thanks a lot guys