Re: gEDA-user: footprints -- novice`s problems

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Igor2 wrote:
> Someone sells special film for this purpose, and that costs much. I am
> not an expert, so I may be wrong on the mechanism, but I think the idea
> is that the laser printer doesn't use ink but some sort of polimer that is
> melted on the media. If the media is paper, some of the polimer paint
> works off in the paper. If you try your good old non-ball-point pen with
> normal paper, it 'drinks' the ink. However, if you use the special film,
> it has a shiny surface which won't 'drink' the ink or paint. The trick is
> not to buy that special film, but use some shiny paper with similar
> surface. This kind of paper is used for magazines and printed spam. It's
> usually thicker than normal paper. (I can't translate the name of the
> paper, my dictionary lacks this word.)
> 
> I could buy some in a local decoration shop, in my experience most
> printers can handle ones between 100 and 130 gram/m^2. The critical part
> is when the printer tries to feed the paper and it slips.
> 
> Someone reported that he was too lazy to buy such paper and used some spam
> or magazine. I haven't tested this, it may be an urban legend. 
> 
> I hope this helps; if my description was not useful enough, I could
> snail mail you a sample.

  Very interesting...Yes I think I understand what you're describing.
I've not tried anything like that; I would like to do so at some point.
 Perhaps soon.  Thanks for the info (everyone else too!)

        -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL


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