Homebrew PCBs

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:52:15 +0100, teknochaman <teknochaman@...>  
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> Got info about when direct printing' thread began this
> year.
> Keyword search was : 'Future floor polish',
> Thanks Stefan!

Well, as i said, that keyword would turn up the very old posts about using  
it in a HP, nothing ever worked back then, not even close, so no much  
point in reading it unless you want to know how to kill a printer. The  
good stuff is Volkan's post from 2006-4-13 and the following posts.

> With that hint I understood lot of things.
> Still I have a few basic questions about how-to-begin
> 1.
> Do I need a torch to hack a Epson C84 ? (was told that
> about Stylus 880)

My theory is that one needs high resolution or a printhead with many  
nozzles or both to make it work. The old epsons i tried did not look  
promising, the printout came out in individual lines. But it's only a  
theory. Still seems safer to me to start with a printer similar to  
something known to work.

> 2. Guess that in all cases I'd need a flatbed tray or
> surface to put there the phenolic or epoxy,
> copper laminated substrates to be printed on.

Or at the very least a modified CD tray in a CD printer.

> 3. Which inks are recommended and wonder if it's
> possible to get cartridge refills ?


The initial results were with mispro, especially the yellow. More recently  
we have had good reports about original epson inks.

ST