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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Alternate solvent inks

From: William Carr <Jkirk3279@...>
Date: 2006-05-05

On May 5, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Steve wrote:

> Like who? All desktop printer inks that I'm aware of use water,
> alcohol, and glycol as their solvent. Constraints of not drying in the
> head, drying quickly on the paper, not spreading too much in the paper
> while drying, etc.

I was referring to the older Canon printers or Canon-engine based
printers like my old Color Stylewriter.

I have bottles of refill ink that I can't use in Epsons because it's
a different formulation.

Even today, I understand that Canon uses a different printing
mechanism that uses heat, which is why you can't use dye sublimation
ink in Canon printers.