Homebrew PCBs

Steve,

Your numbers are a little high. Laser printers $80,
laminators $30. Irons less. Mastercard ;)

Some people with use a readily availible photocopier
-- zero dollars.

Homebrew-pcbs is a specialized group of very vocal (or
whatever the term for posters is) people that are well
beyond the ordindary joe. Sometimes, we, myself
included, forget our roots and have our heads in the
clouds. 

If $100 is very cheap, then why haven't you yet
purchased a R220 which lists for $100 and can be
purchased (refurbished) from EPSOn directly for $71
with shipping included? Don't forget the ink
settlement which drops the cost considerably.

You missed the point about the average joe. He is not
going out and spending his $$$ on a set up just for
making pcbs. Again, I'm talking about the average guy
maybe making a few boards a month. he'll buy a refill
ink kit, but not a continuous feed kit, to save money
overall.

Yes there are a few dedicated souls who for their own
purposes will spend some extra $$$ just to be able to
make a pcb...

The KISS principle does reign.

I'm glad you're volunteering to write these drivers.

Myc



--- Steve <alienrelics@...> wrote:

> Theoretically if someone writes a shareware driver
> or interface to the
> driver that allows a full area rectangle to be
> printed with the CD
> tray, it could also handle a different ICC profile
> to make it print
> using yellow and magenta even though the PCB/CAD
> program is sending it
> as black. 
> 
> In which case you can also continue to use the
> printer for regular
> printing. With the added advantage (with the CD
> printers) that now the
> prints are pigmented and therefore water and fade
> resistant. And MIS
> pigmented bulk ink is -way- cheaper than Epson OEM
> ink!
> 
> Although I'm far from rolling in money, under $100
> seems very cheap
> for this kind of thing. The printers are often found
> with rebates, I
> can import inexpensive autoreset refillable
> cartridges and build my
> own bulk ink system.
> 
> Toner transfer requires at least $200 for a laser
> printer (less if
> bought used) and $50 to $100 for a laminator.
> 
> Steve Greenfield
> 
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Mycroft2152
> <mycroft2152@...> wrote:
> >
> > Good points. Just other things to be tried.
> > 
> > Another issue is whether pcb or drawing programs
> will
> > print the pcb in colored ink rather than black.
> Again
> > the issue of not dedicating a costly printer for
> just
> > pcbs and refilling the black cartidge with colored
> ink
> > mix.
> > 
> > Myc
> > 
> > --- Steve <alienrelics@...> wrote:
> > 
> > > How about a modified CD tray? Or just making an
> > > entirely new CD tray?
> > > 
> > > The big issue there is probably that the
> software
> > > will only allow ink
> > > to be sprayed down within the CD area. Even
> though a
> > > business card CD
> > > is a rectangle, there is the hub area.
> > > 
> > > But that would not require modifying the
> printer.
> > > 
> > > Steve Greenfield
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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