Homebrew PCBs

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:16:30 +0200, mycroft2152 <mycroft2152@...>  
wrote:

> I just ran a sheet of thin pcb material through my wife's EPSON R220
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> printer. (With a lot of trepedation, if I screwed up her printer I
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> would really be in the doghouse!)
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> This was a quick and dirty test printing her business card, no board
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> prep just a quick print.
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> I was very surprised. The ink was very uniform on thin lines, but did
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> puddle on larger areas. (Note: this was a raw board -- no prep).
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> I'm going to let it dry and the 'cook' it to check the durability.
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> By then I'll have a prepped board and try the full process.
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> TANSTAAFL!
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> Myc


Thanks for making such tests under great peril to yourself ;-)


The cleaning will have some effect on the beading up you see on larger  
areas i'd expect.

I'm curious as to how well this inkjet ink sticks to the copper, would it  
be suitable for component legend?

In 3 days a auction for a broken tektronix phaser wax printer ends. I  
dunno how it will develop but i might be able to afford it. But hearing  
these inkjet things i'm not sure if i should try for it at all...


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