Homebrew PCBs

Please change the subject line and delete the irrelevant stuff. Or
just start a new thread. Searching the archives is difficult enough
without hijacked threads.

I think it was Stefan who tried this in an HP printer, but it's a
bubblejet and a bubblejet printer uses heat to vaporize some of the
solvent in the ink, which drives a blop of ink out of the print head.
He said it immediately clogged, so it probably hardened the Future
Floor polish that he tried.

I have an Epson 800 (black only model) that I intend to try as the
Epson printers use a piezo drive head. As this does -not- use heat, I
have hopes that it may work but I'm not holding my breath.

Of all the desktop printers, Epson is the only one that uses Piezo.
The rest use bubblejet.

Steve

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Phil" <phil1960us@y...> wrote:
> I am still interested in an older thread on using inkjet printers to 
> directly print resist.  I think the thread just died out but it sure 
> seems to me that if we could find the right kind of ink, it ought be 
> a really great way to get very quality/repeatable etch masks on 
> copper.  I would not at all mourn the passing of the transfer 
> process...
> 
> I've got an old inkjet gathering dust that I may save from my 
> robotics experiments...