About a toner transfer technique

Never mind. A further search revealed that few, if any, others use the two-step approach to transferring the pattern onto glossy paper.

He doesn't. He prints first on photocopier paper to find out where opn the page the image will be, then tapes glossy paper over it and prints again. If his printer would just take a full sheet of glossy with no problem I'm sure he'd do that instead.

That's not what he needs, and not why he prints twice.

He transfers the second image printed on tho the bit of glossy directly onto the copper. The original print is never used or transferred anywhere.

CH

Ah, I get it. Somehow I failed to notice the print on the glossy when it came out of the printer.

Remove all of the intermediate crap; print directly onto the PCB...

With a home laser printer? How?

Using the envelope mode. It's been tried, and doesn't work; can't get enough heat into it to fuse the toner, and it wrecks the drum. But Baer is a specialist in breaking computer equipment.

Besides, most (all?) inexpensive laser printers do not have a straight-through paper path, making it impossible to print on a rigid board.

I've heard that some people modify an inkjet printer for printing on a rigid plate, but I wonder if the ink is waterproof enough for etching. And it must be hard on the print heads. Perhaps a plotter could work.