Extremely easy and cheap photo transfer.

[corrado33]

Hi all,
I've made a discovery that I've decided to share with those of you who want to make your own PCBs.

These are my results using fed-ex kinkos printers on the darkest setting + the photo transfer paper linked below and a $19 wal-mart laminator. (It's a scotch brand.)

http://pcbfx.com/main_site/pages/start_here/overview.html

Apologies for the phone pictures!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6oqWuYTCiclMXJkSFE3Qlh4UlZIQ3ZPeEJrZ1ZyRDk2UmFJ/view?usp=sharing


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6oqWuYTCiclYzBac21rRklzOVhhMUJXa0ZVM2RIei12bUtN/view?usp=sharing

EDIT: Seems like on the pictures you can see specs of white areas (where no toner would be). Trust me, the transfer is perfect. Very crisp and ZERO holes. Everything transferred perfectly.
The transfer is 100% effecient. There was NO ink left on the transfer paper. (Ignore the messed up corner, that was my fault.)

Here's what I did differently than the paper told me to do.

I ran it through the laminator probably 8-10 times. After that was finished, I let it cool for all of 5 seconds, then ran it under hot water. The paper started sliding around then came off perfectly clean. The messed up corner is from when I tried to pull it off without getting it wet.

EDIT: Well, apparently google doesn't like people directly linking to their pictures... so I guess you'll just have to look at the links.

[corrado33]

found the youtube ....

not a bad process ... but you do need a good laminator i think?

I initially thought so too. I figured I'd try the $20 wal-mart one just for kicks, but it works a treat!