throbscottle
Well-Known Member
I remember now, it's called dextrin. If there are kids around you can have great fun mixing the powder with a little water and pretending it's snot!
Anyway, Sarma is right, the yellow paper is really good and by far the easiest to use. It has a very thin plastic coating which seals the toner somewhat. I made a good number of boards with it before switching to dry photo resist film. (To try to give some kind of perspective: going from regular paper to the yellow paper is like going from VHS to DVD. Making the switch to photo resist is like going from DVD to Blu-Ray)
Also I got fairly good results putting some old glossy inkjet photo paper through the laser printer, before I discovered the yellow paper. Not as good as the yellow paper, better than hunting around trying to find just the "right" magazine pages
Anyway, Sarma is right, the yellow paper is really good and by far the easiest to use. It has a very thin plastic coating which seals the toner somewhat. I made a good number of boards with it before switching to dry photo resist film. (To try to give some kind of perspective: going from regular paper to the yellow paper is like going from VHS to DVD. Making the switch to photo resist is like going from DVD to Blu-Ray)
Also I got fairly good results putting some old glossy inkjet photo paper through the laser printer, before I discovered the yellow paper. Not as good as the yellow paper, better than hunting around trying to find just the "right" magazine pages