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Printing a Book Music Template on Cardboard
By Craig Smith

Hi,  Jim Divoky mentions (in MMD 040831) a method for using a laser
printer to put the pattern of holes on cardboard fan-fold stock by
removing the reversed and unfused copy and pressing it onto the
cardboard.  Lastly, you would spray it to fix the toner to the card
stock.

A simpler method is to let the reversed copies be produced as usual.
Then take the copy and place it face down on the card stock.  Finally,
simply _iron_ the back of the paper and the image will transfer to the
card stock.  Set the copier or printer to make a dark copy so you get a
maximum amount of toner.  You can also spray a solvent on the paper and
transfer it that way, but the ironing method is easier and less risky.

If you could find a 30-year-old Xerox 3100 roll-feed copier that still
works, you could just copy it directly.  I designed that machine to
make copies of seismic charts up to 14 inches wide and any length.  The
oil companies loved it.

Regards
Craig Smith
near Rochester, New York, USA


(Message sent Wed 1 Sep 2004, 13:17:47 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  Book, Cardboard, Music, Printing, Template

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