My hate for ironing

I love making PCBs at home.. but.. I hate the process of ironing the transfer on the copper clad board. I was searching for other ways of doing this and I have seen people use a laminator to do so but was unsure of the process. I have been digging around tonight and found that the “GBC laminator” can be modded to get higher temperatures to make sure the toner will adhere to the copper clad. Here the info I have found so far.

Different mods for laminators to help the process:

• CTS mod to raise the temperature.
• Swap gears to slow down the laminator’s feed roller.

Looks like the desired laminator is the GBC-H220

I’m going to keep looking for more information. Looks like the H220 is a hard model to find since its an older model.

Update:

So I guess the GBC models are the most used because the came up with a new way of laminating. Here is a quote.

Instead of heater plates positioned after the transport rollers used to seal plastic pouches (like all other pouch laminators), the heaters in this redesign concept have been made into an arc and mounted above and below the two transport rollers. The heat is then radiated into the neoprene coated rollers very evenly as they continuously turn from the high-torque motor drive up to the correct temperature of 275ºF to 300ºF. In effect, GBC’s developers created a very inexpensive “hot roll” laminator!