laser-lovers@uw-beaver (04/13/85)
From: Sewhuk.HENR@xerox.arpa I used to make some on a Xerox 6500 color copier. Someplace in town(Rochester) sells a form of waxed paper that you run through the machine. The waxed paper does not fuse the toner into itself, but adheres it enough to keep the image. Once out of the machine you just iron it on a tee shirt transfer the toner to the shirt. Try calling the RIT library, they used to make them on the 6500 a while back and could probably tell you where to get some. Remember toner is a polymer plastic and once fused into a cloth fiber is pretty permanent. Shirts are similar to paper in this respect. I wouldn't recommend plain waxed paper, this stuff was special so as not to catch fire and crumple during the 3 passes in the fuser section of the machine. The guys in Webster warned me not to do it on their machine, the paper tended to jam and scratch the drum. The waxed paper was a bit thicker than your ordinary 1024 paper. I suspect it was the material they use in a photo mounting press that doesn't stick to the mounting tissue. At least it feels that way. Dave [[Editor's note: Readers, please recall that this discussion started with a warning that some of these products would damage a Canon CX print engine---the engine used in the HP LaserJet, the Imagen 8/300, the QMS 800, the Apple LaserWriter, and others. Use caution. --Rick ]]