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Did you know you can use essential oils to transfer prints from a laser printer or copier onto fabric, wood, or other materials? Orange oil seems to work best for this process. Pine and other evergreen oils have also been recommended, but I personally found better success with orange. Look at all of the pictures to see how it all works. The things you can do with this method are virtually endless! Use this method to create personalized aprons, totes, gift tags, gift bags, t-shirts, ribbons, and whatever else you can think of!
You can see my other trying to use orange oil to transfer picture onto wood here:
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Getting the toner off after etching was harder then I expected. I had to rub quite hard with acetone and a rag. Acetone is sold as nail varnish remover, and it's a useful solvent for all sorts of things.
Dover Laser Printer, Xerox PARC, 1976
“Physicist Gary Starkweather developed a prototype of the Dover laser printer at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in 1976 by combining a Xerox photocopier with a laser. His device quickly and reliably produced high-quality output and became the first later printer to be offered commercially. The initial printer cost $100,000 and could print one page per second (same as the photocopier on which it is based). While laser printers have become much smaller and less expensive, the operational principles of all subsequent machines can be traced to Starkweather’s design.”
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
(7000)
for some reason, our all-in-one (scanner, copier, colour printer) hates me and won't print for me. It likes Mark just fine... we picked this up at Costco last week, it's a laser printer for plain documents and it's very nice!
Our HP LasereJet 4P printer died in early October 2011. It served us well, churning out thousands of sheets in its 17-year life. I bought it in January 1994 for $999 plus tax. Generic toner cartridges cost me about $52 each.
After several years of problem-free use it started making terrible squeaking noises. I feared it was a goner, but it kept on going and the noises eventually stopped. The only ongoing problem I had with it was a "memory overflow" error when printing some Google Earth images. Just before I left on a road trip to Utah, it started printing jibberish and never recovered. My long-time computer guru told me it was beyond repair, so I ordered a Brother printer to replace it. The LaserJet got recycled.
The best way to check for full etching of the copper is to hold the PCB up to a light. This is a very old piece of SRBP (synthetic resin-bonded paper) board, and the light shows through brown. Newer fibreglass boards are greyish in colour.