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Re: RE : [Homebrew_PCBs] Inkjet printing to copper - finally the ink resists! (like crazy!)

2006-08-01 by lcdpublishing

Bravo Stefan!!!!!

If you need more ink, contact me off-list, I still have the stuff I 
bought with you when we all started on this.  There isn't much light 
at the end of my tunnel so I suspect I won't be doing ink-jet PCBs 
anytime soon.

I suspect with the curing being quantified, the performance of other 
brands of inks and colors will also broaden.  When I did my crude 
tests with the durabright ink (yellow), it worked, but I was curing 
with a hot air gun. 

Also, seeing as I have been using magazine pages for toner transfer, 
I have found that the transferred ink (the text on the pages) also 
seems to serve as a resist.  Could it be that the transfer with heat 
is also "Curing" the ink onto the PCB which makes it function as a 
resist also?  If this is the case, then I suspect that a wide 
variety of inks just may work out for this process.

Well, anyway, great job on your progress and that write up.  If I 
ever get time to tinker with my R220 printer, I will try to do the 
same with it.

Chris

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