{"id":14,"date":"2008-01-12T22:31:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T03:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2014-05-23T01:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T05:15:42","slug":"a-non-sticky-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"A non-sticky situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/images\/motorboard3_badtransfer1.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/images\/motorboard3_badtransfer1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"A detailed scan of my bad transfer.\" title=\"A detailed scan of my bad transfer.\" style=\"margin: 4px\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Last week, I finally got around to printing the new motor controller board. Since I did not have any usable glossy magazine pages as I&#8217;d used in my first toner-transfer attempt, I opted to use high-gloss inkjet paper.<\/p>\n<p>It was a catastrophic failure.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a myriad of toner-transfer articles on the web singing the praises of high-gloss inkjet paper, very little transferred to the copper-clad board at all.  Surprisingly, the cheap, thin magazine\/catalog paper worked much better. There were other differences, so I really can&#8217;t point at any single one as being the point of failure.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The heavy, high-gloss paper is substantially thicker than the original paper, so I may have needed more heat and\/or time.<\/li>\n<li>I tried using slightly less pressure with the iron in an attempt to avoid the bleeding I saw on my first attempt with the carrier boards, a hint I gleaned from the web.<\/li>\n<li>The thicker board may have required more heat.<\/li>\n<li>There was a hell of a lot of toner to transfer compared to my previous attempt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have one remaining copy of the motor board traces on the high-gloss paper; if that doesn&#8217;t work, I&#8217;m going back to the catalog pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I finally got around to printing the new motor controller board. Since I did not have any usable glossy magazine pages as I&#8217;d used in my first toner-transfer attempt, I opted to use high-gloss inkjet paper. It was a catastrophic failure. Despite a myriad of toner-transfer articles on the web singing the praises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[18,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}