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Kermit
08-02-2017, 11:01 AM
Hi

Could anyone recommend the best place to buy the blue PNP paper for etching in the UK please.

Also - can you feed the paper through the printer more than once? ie if you don't use a whole sheet, as long as the printer will accept it, can you put it through again....

Thanks

ps_bond
08-02-2017, 11:11 AM
What I do when I want to use small pieces of PnP is to cut them to size and tape them in place on a carrier sheet with Kapton tape (which has a high temperature tolerance). This has worked for every laser printer & copier I've tried it with.

As for where, Maplin are probably the most convenient from memory.

Pickle
08-02-2017, 03:01 PM
I bought 20 A4 sheets off Ebay from China (I wasn't in a rush) - cost me about £5. Came quickly and worked well in the printer and for etching. It wasn't blue though - yellow? The only problems I encountered was my own stupidity of forgetting to print a reverse image hehehe - doh!

Kermit
08-02-2017, 04:48 PM
Thank you both

Great tip Peter I shall remember that one!

J Allison
08-02-2017, 05:10 PM
for etching I use Magazine paper with a laser printer