Cheap and Easy Toner Transfer for PCB Making

Step 2 Soak It with Cold Water

Just Soak It in the Cold Water. Since Matte Paper are much thinner than Glossy Paper. Paper will become soft very quickly. Use your finger to remove the paper gently. Don't Remove it Too Hard. Otherwise, some toner will be removed too.

Please check the every trace. Find out any broke trace. If find, use Acetone to clean it and do it again.

Comments

[MeisterMarkus]

I had very good results using a steam-iron; the steam presses the toner onto the copper and the paper gets off real easy; no need to soak/peal/rub the paper

[bombmaker2]

I'm doing that right now but the iron leaked and tore the paper a bit it seems to have worked

[bombmaker2]

wrong tried it three more times and it still sucks

[matador29b]

I found that this shrinks the image a bit, not good for surface mount chips

[worldgnat]

Just a suggestion: if you find a broken trace you can fix it with a Sharpie marker (or so I hear).

[440hertz]

good instructable. Magazine paper does work well, or the semi glossy junk mail. You can buy special 'press and peel' paper for toner transfer, its blue on one side and it is very good for fine traces as you just peel off after ironing and it leaves no residue, it's more expensive though. I leave the toner on until I have drilled the board and ready to solder, then rub it off with 1200 grit wet and dry sandpaper, leaves the copper nice and clean for easy soldering if you don't tin your boards.

[n0ukf]

Sharpies work well for repairing traces, also for hand-drawing circuit traces directly on the board for etching.

[bombmaker2]

I usually draw mine for a simple circuit

[bombmaker2]

or I use PCB123 to design it

[conrad2468]

Id thank you but i have a mac......):

[rippinblaise]

try using cadsoft eagle it works well for designing circuits and it works on windows, mac, and linux here's an example for what it can do this is a circuit to a tesla coil i'm making

[bombmaker2]

ok