On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:06:25 +0100, epineh <russ_nat@...> wrote:
> Hi, my name is Russell, I started the thread on the printer mod in
> CNCzone. For what it it worth, I did come here first and I didn't
> realize I was wasting my time, sorry bout that. I got the
> inspiration from James's site and decided to post a log on CNCzone,
> as I thought others might benifit. I like the forum format as I find
> it more organized and easier to get the info I need, each to their
> own.
> Not sure what you mean by the black ink example, I know one of the
> guys tried it as a resist, even though magenta seems to be better by
> all accounts, but people will experiment...
> I am getting the hang of this group's format, and sorry if my first
> post is a little negative, I think what you guys are achieving is
> awesome, I am all for getting helpful info to whoever wants to learn,
> that is my motivation in logging my printer mod attempt. Wasn't
> thinking of an "us and them" scenario.
> Russell.
You can't possibly _harm_ the development of this process in any way if
you take it to a dozen other places, since it is just additional people
doing additional work getting additional results. This can only further
the development of direct inkjet printing, which is the only thing i am
interested in becasue i want to use it at some point for all my PCBs. I
want as many people to work on it and use it as possible, because then we
will get results. At the moment i had to freeze my efforts, but as i had
hoped other people are getting on with it and i will have a great
advantage from that when i get back to it. It is obvious that i can only
benefit from any additional efforts by other people, and silly allegations
by some folks don't even make any sense.
But what i'm saying is that we could benefit more from each other more if
we all discussed it in one place, immediately sharing what we find out.
There is no harm in making mistakes twice, individually, but there is also
no real benefit from it. And "chance" discoveries are very tricky to
repeat. If you look back in history most interesting developments have
been worked on simultaneously, and perfected, by two or more totally
independent individuals or groups. They just never knew ;-). I see no
reason for that. It will be a lot better in this case since you read stuff
here, and i'm sure if you find something important out you'll tell us, but
i can't quite see the advantage of two places of discussion. I can
understand why you like the forum better (i like the mailgroup better
probably for much the same reasons just reversed), so if that is worth the
fragmentation of information for you that's fine with me. Just let us know
too if you find out something important ;-)
As to the black ink, yes, experimentation is always good (we'd have
nothing without it), but as far as i'm aware everyone has found black to
be just about the worst resist, so it makes it unnecessary hard to start
with, maybe impossible.
Anyway, if i come across a bit grumpy, well, that's probably because i am
like that most of the time. I'm lazy, and still want to make the best PCBs
possible, so i'd love for other people to do all the development work for
me, and that's much easier if they are all here putting that information
right into my mailbox ;-). I'm only afraid i'll miss something, you
mustn't be offended, ok?
ST