Hi Nick,
I have had much better luck with an inkjet printer and waterproof film used for screen printing than I ever had with a laser printer and transparencies. Very opaque, no pinholes, no need to double up. I find that the inkjet also has better dimensional accuracy. My laster tended to slightly change the scale of the image out to the edges. I do tell the printer to lay down maximum ink at maximum DPI. Other than that, nothing special.
Here are the films that I use, but I’m sure there are others that will work the same:
I don’t use any fancy ink. Just a cheap refill kit for HP cartridges.
Good luck,
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On Apr 10, 2021, at 3:43 PM, Nick Kennedy <
kennnick@...> wrote:
I'm trying to get rolling on the photoresist method. I have a Samsung B&W laser printer which I have used for the toner transfer method and hoped to use to print my transparencies for the UV/photoresist method.
Looking at transparency film for laser printers, I'm seeing advice to operate the printer at lower temperature and/or set it up for printing transparencies.? My printer does not have these options.??
Does that mean I'll likely have trouble with my prints to transparencies?? Would I be better off trying to use an inkjet printer and the appropriate transparencies for that type of printer?
Thanks,
Nick, WA5BDU
