At the risk of bring those who are not interested in Injet printing
directly onto boards..
I am just about to bite the bullet on this one..
I am going to go for an Epson R220 and a Continuous Ink System.
Advantages..
a) The R220 is a CD printer so should be easier to modify to print
boards directly.
b) If the printer breaks, as it is a fairly new model, I should be
able to get a replacement quickly.
c) The printers are available cheaply without ink as there are sellers
on ebay who remove the genuine cartridges and sell them seperately.
b) The CIS system gets round the problem of chipping cartridges.
c) The CIS also allows the printing cartridges to be connected to the
same reservoir once the best ink is determined.
d) The suppliers of the CIS on eBay will supply it empty which will
save flushing out the Dye Ink.
e) If a particular cartridge gets a blocked nozzle, simply by changing
the color of the print, printing can continue.
It might take a while to get all the bits.. but I thought i would
share my logic with the group.
Chris
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <alienrelics@...> wrote:
>
> Why not just mix the yellow and magenta, and fill every cartridge in
> an inkjet printer with it for PCBs? That way it doesn't matter that
> the driver will use a mix of colors for black and for the edges where
> it mixes multiple colors to get shades of grey.
>
> Connect them all up to the same bulk ink bottle.
>
> Steve Greenfield
>