Homebrew PCBs

I decided i don't really need a CIS and instead installed spongeless  
carts. They can be refilled in the printer within seconds. A CIS is IMO  
only of advantage if one prints really a lot, otherwise you add all the  
complexity for no benefit.

I'm not sure if there is such an advantage in loading all carts with the  
same ink. The color carts don't have that many nozzles on the c84 and it  
is a bit tricky to control which heads should be used. Basically the black  
head can do it.

I plan to also buy and load the other ink colors in small amounts, hoping  
to use them for printing full color front panels, component legend, etc.  
at some point. Either i will try to see if much more black ink can be  
added to the yellow in the black head (Volkan's results seem to suggest  
this is not detrimental), the MISPRO colors are very powerful, a 50/50  
black yellow mixture would probably look very deep black already.
Or the other option is leaving the black head completely yellow and put  
black into the yellow slot. But this would require much trickery with the  
colors in every printout.

I really start to wonder how special the mispro ink really is, and if  
other inks would work. Now that more people are working on this we will  
surely get answers to many of those questions.


ST


On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:08:00 +0200, roycepipkins <royce.pipkins@...>  
wrote:

> OK. I have a C84 on the way. Its 'untested' but it was less than
> $30USD shipped and I got tired of losing bids. On to the CIS system.
> A quick question about the ink: Is there any reason I should not just
> buy a big yellow (MISPRO-PT-Y) mix in a couple drops of a small black
> (MISPRO-2-MK) and load that in every cartridge? (e.g. Instead of the
> multi-color kit: MISPRO42-SET-MK linked in the web page.) I haven't
> seen anything that mentions actually using the other colors in
> connection with the best results, but I might have missed it.
> Regards,
> Royce