PCB Printer

Question

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Good afternoon! How to choose a printer for printing drawings on a board? What type of printer is best suited for LUT/photolithography? In articles on the topic of photolithography at home, a moment slipped through: the photomask is printed twice. Is it possible to avoid this?
P.S. It is desirable that the printer without a tambourine works under linux

Answer 1

I'll add about my experience: I
used HP LaserJet 1010 and Samsung SCX-3205W for photolithography.
Immediately after printing, on both printers, the templates turned out to be loose (black translucent). To increase the density of printouts, HP sprayed Density Toner. To increase the density of templates from Samsung, it was necessary to keep them in acetone vapor.
After processing, the templates became perfectly black and boards with 0.25/0.25 tracks turned out great.
You do not need to run through the printer twice. Still, getting millimeter-for-millimeter is unrealistic.