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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Using an Epson R300 to make PCBs

From: "Stefan Trethan" <stefan_trethan@...>
Date: 2006-04-11

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:49:53 +0200, derekhawkins <eldata@...> wrote:

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> I have a R320 and the ink works fine with Epson's transparencies. That
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> ink doesn't clog the nozzles easily either, I'm yet to clean the heads
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> yet and usage is like twice a month. There's an Ink and Paper
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> Compatibility Guide on their web site. Using Durabrite ink in those
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> printers for transparencies is totally unnecessary IMO.


With epson _inkjet_ transparencies i assume.
These are 'specially coated to absorb the ink, the PCB isn't.

I tried red staedtler ink in a epson head, which works very well when
applied with a pen, but it wouldn't work very well in the printer.
<www.trethan.at.tf/pub/alu_staedtler.jpg>

that was printed before the nozzles clogged up any more.

what i know does work is tektronix phaser solid wax printers directly on
copper. But that is a wax not a ink.


ST