Dye Sub Printer with Press N Peel blue??

[aloupos]

Has anyone tried using a Dye-sublimation printer on press-n-peel blue?  This printer works very similar to a laser printer, in that it uses heat to fuse a dye to the paper. 

If no-one has tried, I'm willing to give it a shot in the interest of science (and due to the proximity of the Dye Sub printer to my desk)

Anthony

[R.G.]

Toner transfer is a special case. To make toner they take plastic, melt it, put carbon black into it, let it cool, then grind it to a vanishingly fine powder.

The powder is so fine that it sticks to places on the paper which have electric charge on them from the toner drum, and falls off where the paper is not charged. The fuser melts the plastic into the paper. With toner transfer film, it melts the toner into a layer on the film. When you iron it, it remelts the plastic toner and that sticks to copper better than what it was on.

Inkjet doesn't do toner transfer because it's a chemical that drys. It does not remelt, so it can't stick to the copper

Dy sublimation is a process of evaporating a solid dye directly from a solid to a gas, and it then recondensing on the paper. It is possible I suppose that it might act as an etch resist, but it's not likely to be as robust as the remelted plastic of toner.

Here's a thought - try it, let us know. But don't spend a bunch of money on it before you try it.

[aloupos]

Excellant, thanks for the background ... I'll try it tomorrow night and post the results.  It just costs the press n peel blue