Re: gEDA-user: Printing your artwork

[Olgierd Eysymontt <olgierd.eysymontt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've used the transfer toner method succesfully *without* photo paper,
just buy couche paper (the same paper used in magazines) and ask someone
to cut it smaller.

To get the paper sounds complicated but if you know someone in the
graphics arts bussines or student you'll get the paper and cut easilly,
and the cost are so low (USD$1 / full sheet => you can make 16 smaller
sheets perfectly suitable for your printer for only some cents) that
make no sense to fit some images in one page, just use as many pages as
you need.

Like this paper is very thin you have the possibility of splattering of
the toner ironing, but if you put a couple of sheets of tissue paper you
get the same result as compared with the expensive photo paper (which
have tissue paper inside).

Luck

Olgierd


On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:05 +0200, Christian Treldal wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> I've made a small pcb. The ps output is ok, it prints nicely to scale.
> 
> I plan to use the toner transfer method to make the print. I am using HP
> inkjet overhead film for the transfer, and to save the costs (no I'm not
> a Scotsman) I wonders if someone has run into a program, that easily
> lets you multiply and arrange the pcb printout on one page, without
> destroying the scaling of the pcb.
> 
> I've tried the Gimp, but it seems much to complicated for me. It lets
> you import and arrange the pcb's; but one seems always to end up with a
> printout, which is out of scale.
> 
> I'm am aware, that of course its possible to fiddle with scaling in The
> Gimp; but I feel there is far to many options which could go wrong. 
> 
> Any bright ideas before I'm running out of toner.