On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:44:58 +0200, lcdpublishing
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lcdpublishing@...> wrote:
> Oddly enough, I have never had to do ANY board prep work to get that
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> ink to adhere and work good. I don't believe it is water based (or
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> uses water as a solvent) and being that black is the standard color,
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> it also makes pretty good sense that black ink should also work in
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> ink jet printing. Now if we could extract the Sharpie ink out of the
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> pen, AND get it to pass through an ink jet printer, we would have
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> our solution that works very reliably. My hope is that the MIS inks
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> are similar enough in "chemsitry" that they will perform in an ink
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> jet printer as well as the sharpie pens
The sharpie pen ink will not work as resist because it will not pass your
printer.
It will dry so fast you are left with a totally clogged up head that won't
clean with anything, ever.
Been there, destroied that.
Chris, i think we need to talk about the ink shopping again offlist. My
understanding is one would need yellow and black. I'm not quite sure about
amounts. Anyway let me know what you think about it.
ST